Adam Tooze ✓

@adam_tooze

Hist/Econ/Theory C******* University. Born UK, raised FRG. Publisher @surplusmagazin @OnesandToozePod Chartbook substack newsletter

234 301Followers

8 302Following

71 131Posts total

180.3KViews on collected posts

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Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze11 Sep

@adam_tooze @schieritz @Julius_Ktxt Successful capture of a populist movement by Hayekians, I guess. Many of them are/used to be founding members. 559 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze11 Sep

What gives the AfD its credibility as an anti-systemic force is not any socio-economic promise, but its open racism and xenophobia and its culture war attitude. As argued in chartbook 473 https://t.co/QLtRaai3tK and today's 474 https://t.co/WJOTi2S3ep and explored on 7.5K views · 65 likes · 14 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze11 Sep

Or "big government" ... This is best understood neither as incoherence or a narrow petty bourgeois class interest, but a coherent rejection of "the system" which cannot be trusted to fix urgent problems without radical change. https://t.co/KNgPnIJ8eW

5.6K views · 48 likes · 7 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze11 Sep

Do NOT translate amongst the AfD clientele into any pronounced preference for redistribution. https://t.co/RPSSUHP4bY

4.2K views · 40 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze11 Sep

Remarkable data on preferences of far-right AfD voters in Germany courtesy of @schieritz & @Julius_Ktxt & AI translation featured in today's chartbook newsletter. Deep concerns about the economy .... https://t.co/WJOTi2S3ep https://t.co/jw8m0RUJoy

30.7K views · 265 likes · 88 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze7 Sep

@adam_tooze the centrist parties have not delivered on economic progress so why would workers believe them in the future? They have been led to believe that migrants are the problem and the right will solve that problem. You're profoundly wrong. Very disappointing. 351 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze7 Sep

@adam_tooze All well said, but it leaves a big question: why did die Linke lose the outsider, community status it had? unlike SPD and Greens, it didn't f*** up in government, yet voters (esp workers) now prefer AfD (same for BSW). Clearly a Left alternative must offer something e 1.2K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze7 Sep

@adam_tooze Really enjoyed this issue and thanks for the shoutout 1.3K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Adam Tooze ✓@adam_tooze7 Sep

Reflecting on the political earthquake in Germany and the question of an "alternative to the Alternative (fD)" Latest chartbook newsletter just dropped. Check it out and sign up here: https://t.co/QLtRaai3tK https://t.co/zOsXcKleud

128.9K views · 245 likes · 64 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views4 247this account4 200median for 100K–1M

Reach, %1.81%this account1.62%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.01%this account1.31%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 247	4 200	1.01×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.81%	1.62%	1.12×
Engagement rate	1.01%	1.31%	0.77×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

128.9K7 Sep

1.3K

1.2K

351

30.7K11 Sep

4.2K

5.6K

7.5K

559

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.27%7 Sep

0.84%

0.50%

1.14%

1.19%11 Sep

1.27%

1.01%

1.12%

0.54%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.31%.

What the audience does

Likes55.3%685 in total

Reposts14.9%185 in total

Replies3.4%42 in total

Quotes1.7%21 in total

Bookmarks24.6%305 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

Followers by day

9 Sep

Daily snapshots since 09 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

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