Talk:David Neiwert
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[edit]This person is notable how? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.203.214 (talk) 01:34, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
I agree... this person was written an article about himself. What keeps every member of population from doing the same thing? flag for deletion —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.141.141.26 (talk) 06:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
99.181.147.59 (talk) 04:22, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
99.181.147.59 (talk) 04:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Source mining
[edit]We've dug ourselves a really deep hole, Guardian 2019
[edit]- Has lived in the same Seattle neighbourhood for decades.
- He feels that the presence of Amazon “changed the city”, he says. “All the folks who work on those fishing boats are still in the neighbourhood, but they’ve got no place to live. They’re all living on the street.” “We’ve got a lot of motor homes around the neighbourhood now.”
- His career has centered on studying far-right movements
- In January 2019, he began working as a correspondent for the progressive site Daily Kos ✓
- He reported for the SPLC until this point in 2019 ✓
- He has become good at unobtrusively interacting with the right
- Neiwert grew up in an area with heavy Mormon religious and John Birch Society social influences. He says, "That’s probably part of why I’m immune to conspiracism because I got exposed to it at a pretty early age and I think by the time I was 12, 13, 14, I’d figured out that it was 90% bullshit.” ✓
- His family was Methodist ✓
- He says he grew up rural-conservative
- Grew up in south-east Idaho
- family is German-American ✓
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- he worked on Republican campaigns in college ✓
- During his time at smalltown papers, he saw many early far-right developments, including the Sagebrush Rebellion and the Patriot movement.
- In his 2009 "The Eliminationists," Neiwert argues that the fantasies of destroying liberals in conservative media provided fuel for post-9/11 authoritarianism, including birtherism (pushed by, among others, Trump)
- Neiwert does not feel optimistic about fixing problems in American society as of 2019
- Neiwert predicts that Trump will not win the US 2020 presidential election
- Note: I may be missing useful pieces from this article