McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

The thing about baseball is that it's boring unless the Red Sox are doing well. It's just an objective fact. https://t.co/qOTKHfbzFk — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@AlumByu @Just_isB lol you know that the Trump aide who planted this story later to admitted that it was fabricated, right? Have a good weekend! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Just_isB @AlumByu lol nope! — PolitiTweet.org

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@halrobertboyd @SamParkerSenate Put another way: Self-appointed defenders of the faith are spending time on Twitter ridiculing a member of their church for, among other things, her personal appearance. Seems like that should invite a bit of self-reflection on their part. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hunterschwarz: The fracturing of the Latter-day Saint political consensus means the Mormon vote is up for grabs in 2022. My latest, for… — PolitiTweet.org

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America Has a Drinking Problem, by @katejulian https://t.co/atUEgpSXHf — PolitiTweet.org

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“The scale of Trump’s delusion is quite startling. This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter. It is a rejection of reality.” https://t.co/FtoNN4ZFzK — PolitiTweet.org

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@MegMorleyWalter Yeah I tend to do my best (worst) all-caps “writing” in the middle of the night. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karavoght Oh yeah, it’s ridiculous. Everything looks like it’s either being shouted or sent as a ransom note by a serial killer. It’s really just for outlining/rough, rough drafting purposes. I refine and rewrite a lot (probably too much!) — PolitiTweet.org

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Mine is writing the first passes of sentences/paragraphs/sections in all-caps. (I know, this is insane.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CarlosLozadaWP: “ The right-wing media’s portrayal of Biden as a weak, addled old man is not conducive to book-length takedowns.” Read… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hunterschwarz: Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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@michelle_minney @oliverdarcy In fact, you may be right. As I write in the piece, LAPTOP FROM HELL, a book about Hunter Biden, comes out later this year. — PolitiTweet.org

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@janecoaston That's, uh... good news I guess — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RaySuarezNews: @mckaycoppins @katejulian People who track and measure those sorts of things say much more porn now features coercion, v… — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe calling porn a "public health crisis" doesn't do anything, but in my (admittedly prudish, Mormon) opinion it's hard to read @katejulian's great "sex recession" piece from a few years ago without concluding that the porn industry is a social plague. https://t.co/Pak52WdRMI — PolitiTweet.org

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Some good reporting here from @olgakhazan that actually leaves me further convinced porn is an issue that needs *way* more scrutiny outside of the old culture-war framework. https://t.co/KNW8mtZvkV — PolitiTweet.org

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One conservative book editor cited a unique challenge in making @AOC appear sufficiently villainous: “It’s hard to find a bad picture of her to put on the cover.” https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe — PolitiTweet.org

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With Biden proving an inadequate villain, conservative book publishers are looking for new bogeyman. Top candidates, according to the people I'm talking to: Anthony Fauci, Hunter Biden, AOC, and Kamala Harris. https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JonahDispatch shared some candid thoughts on why it was so easy to make Hillary Clinton seem "sinister" to a certain kind of conservative reader. https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe https://t.co/yThcLjpcDQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@pronoydsarkar That point comes a couple paragraphs later! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @denisewills: “If somebody came to me and was like, ‘I have a book on Biden’s secret plan to destroy America,’ I would ask, ‘How many ti… — PolitiTweet.org

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The popular right-wing caricature of Biden as an addled old man doesn't lend itself to book-length villainization. He has "a deeply nonthreatening persona,” says @benshapiro. “You kind of feel bad attacking him, honestly, because it feels like elder abuse" https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe — PolitiTweet.org

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“In the past, it’s been like taking candy from a baby to write a book about the Democratic president,” one frustrated conservative editor told me. Now? “Nobody is trying.” https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "The market for anti-Biden books is ice cold. Authors have little interest in writing them, editors have little intere… — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

The market for anti-Biden books is ice cold. My latest story, on the state of the conservative publishing industry: https://t.co/hbJ7LJ0tWe — PolitiTweet.org

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Based on the replies to this, feels like we’re in the early stages of “Biden as unexpected style icon.” — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ll stop RTing these now, but man have the Trump years melted a lot of brains. (Muting this thread now but feel free to carry on below if you’d like.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh *that’s* the reason? That’s... really stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

@EBOlady So the scandal is that she’s still covering Trump? — PolitiTweet.org