Dems like these arid proceduralist critiques of warmaking because they're a hedge between pro-war and antiwar factions of their base.https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/850187318820564996 …
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Legal-procedural critiques of warmaking are so coy and clever! "Oh we're not against the war itself, you just need to clear it with us 1st."
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But the proceduralist mask has now stuck to the Democrats' face. Terrified of sounding like goddam hippies, they want to sound like lawyers.
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And it can't be stressed enough, lawyerly Dem-friendly NGOs like
@ACLU &@HRW are not under any stretch of the imagination antiwar groups.1 reply 3 retweets 10 likes
My fellow traveler @samuelmoyn spells it out here, worth reading to understand the Dems'often-convoluted war talkhttps://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/civil-liberties-and-endless-war …
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