Do You Hear What I Hear?

Thoughts on dog whistles and the difficulties of messaging

A year ago, one of the big “statue accounts” on Twitter—a name some folks give these traditionalist, right-wing-ish accounts that post about Western civilization and things like that—posted this:

Many of the replies, of course, went something like “because it’s run by an imperialist autocrat” or “because it’s in economic collapse.” A few responses took i…