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Michael Tracey (born August 8, 1988) is an American independent journalist who covers American politics, freedom of speech, censorship and America's culture war, among others.

Summary of career

Tracey's articles have been published in The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera, Reason, The Independent, The Intercept, The New Republic, The Federalist, The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, the New York Post, The Nation, Fox News, The Guardian U.S., and many other publications. Tracey has been a recurring guest on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. He is known for sharing his political views on Twitter, where he has over 150,000 followers, and for covering the riots associated with the 2020 George Floyd protests, which he claims were mostly ignored by other journalists.

He has been described, in analysis of the contemporary media landscape in the late 2010s and early 2020s, as a "Left Heretic", alongside other journalists such as Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani. "Left Heretics" are defined as those who hail from the left of politics, but nonetheless are widely detested by mainstream leftists because they deviate from consensus on certain issues, notably freedom of speech and what can be construed as identity politics.

He joined The Young Turks in early 2017, however had left the group by mid-2018. He stated that his departure from the group was on amicable terms.

In 2017, congresswoman Maxine Waters walked away from an interview with Tracey and pushed aside his hand which was holding a microphone toward her face. The incident was captured on video and, according to Tracey, Waters had "initiated unwarranted physical contact" and "shoved" him, but it was "not a violent shove".

Personal views

Tracey supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 US Democratic primaries, and advocated "conscious abstention" in the 2016 presidential election. He has been highly critical of the Clintons (Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton). In 2020, Tracey supported Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign. He did not express a preference for Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Tracey has been critical of the Democrats and allegations of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. In a March 2019 opinion piece for The New York Times, Ross Douthat described Tracey as one of the "strongest skeptics of the Russiagate narrative". However, Tracey has written that "the possibility committed obstruction of justice by firing FBI director James Comey is real."

In 2019, Tracey criticised an article by Kevin Poulsen in The Daily Beast which revealed the identity and criminal history of a man who allegedly created a modified video of House speaker Nancy Pelosi which made her appear drunk.

Tracey was in the news in February 2021 after he accused congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of "emotional manipulation" online.

Personal life

Tracey was born on August 8, 1988. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.

References

1. "Michael Tracey". The Daily Beast.
2. "Michael Tracey". Al Jazeera.
3. "Michael Tracey". Reason.com.
4. "Michael Tracey". The Independent.
5. "Michael Tracey". The Intercept.
6. "Author: Michael Tracey". The New Republic.
7. For example, Never forget the Trump-Russia moral panic: By fearmongering far beyond the evidence, the media and politicians did a huge disservice to the public
8. "Michael Tracey". vice.com. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
9. Tracey, Michael (February 4, 2021). "How AOC links the personal with the political, stifling dissent". New York Post.
10. "Michael Tracey – The Nation". The Nation.
11. Tracey, Michael (July 8, 2020). "Michael Tracey: Minority businesses suffering in Minneapolis following rioting after George Floyd's death". Fox News.
12. Heer, Jeet (July 12, 2019). "Leftists Shouldn’t Go on Tucker Carlson". The Nation.
13. What He Saw at the Riots National Review interview with Tracey, July 31, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
14. The election everyone got wrong ("Michael Tracey and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism.") Spiked, November 19, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
15. Left Heretics and the New Media Collective Tablet, September 15, 2020. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
16. Tracey, Michael (January 22, 2017). "A Note On Joining The Young Turks". Medium.
17. @mtracey (July 3, 2018). "Programming note: I've departed The Young Turks. It was an interesting experience. Other things are in the works, but I'm always open to suggestions... get in touch" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
18. ^ Phillips, Kristine (June 4, 2017). "Did Rep. Maxine Waters ‘shove’ a reporter? You decide." The Washington Post.
19. Weigel, David (May 28, 2020). "The Trailer: What we’ve learned from the great mask war". The Washington Post.
20. Douthat, Ross (March 26, 2019). "The Paranoid Center". The New York Times.
21. Ingram, Mathew (June 3, 2019). "Should The Daily Beast have exposed the man behind ‘drunk Pelosi’ video?". Columbia Journalism Review.
22. Michael Tracey Blasts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Emotional Manipulation,' Faces Backlash Newsweek, February 2, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
23. @mtracey (August 9, 2020). "While today is technically my birthday, I now self-identify with a different birthday (TBD). There's a spectrum of birthdays and I won't be held down by the birthday binary. Thank you" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
24. "Why all this trans stuff?" on YouTube

External links

• Twitter profile
• Medium blog
• UnHerd author profile

• 1988 births
• American male journalists
• Journalists from New Jersey
• New Jersey Independents
• The Young Turks people
• Living people