it’s nice to see @L0m3z successfully bully ross out of tweeting about star wars long enough to admit that his denunciations of the outer right as delusional or bad-faith are themselves a tactical play to curry favor with the institutions rather than a sincere dialogue with truth.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1337389920931999744 …
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note that the “mistake” ross sees is not any claim about how the system is constituted, the motives of those who run it, or evidence that they did what they are accused of. rather, it is thinking that we can win. a tough sell from someone who never came off the sidelines
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it seems just as plausible to me,
@DouthatNYT, that the reason we don’t win is because the right’s few supposed luminaries cloak their vanity and weakness in the guise of moral courage whenever a political solution presents itself2 replies 4 retweets 65 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @kwamurai @DouthatNYT
Isn’t this always the excuse? “Conservatives can’t do anything! Except obstruct reactionaries which they have done successfully for centuries; we are unable to adjust.”
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Hmm, they always lose and are eager to surrender when opposing ideas to their left and are adamant in opposition to ideas and people to their right. This is what you think is self-evidently absurd? It looks like how you'd expect gatekeepers to behave.
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