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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jun 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

    1. one "side" = annoying college students. One "side" = authoritarian-leaning party that has unified control of American government. To equate the two is threat inflation.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1007364232634093569 …

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    Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
    Yes, the excesses of one side can only be prevented by defending the excesses of the other! Everyone knows this! https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1007352702148505600 …
    3:52 PM - 14 Jun 2018
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jun 2018

        2. The proper analogy to Chait's stance is Cold War liberalism. Yes, CPUSA was (sorry tankies!) mostly bad. But CW liberal threat inflation about domestic communism paved the way for McCarthyism, which was much bigger threat to American liberties than poor old CPUSA

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      1. Katy Rodda‏ @KatyRodda 14 Jun 2018
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        Can this be applied when someone says 'all different users should share equal responsibility on the roads, regardless of the amount of damage they're capable of'? (thinking toddler on pavement with scooter and large articulated truck) Thank you v much. Threat inflation.

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      2. Travis Souza 🌻‏ @travestynv 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet @Chick_in_Kiev

        To minimize the misogyny of "annoying college kids" is perhaps just as bad. Neither is an honest stance.

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      3. Travis Souza 🌻‏ @travestynv 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @travestynv @HeerJeet @Chick_in_Kiev

        In my day as an annoying college kid we were defending Hillary's right to not stay home and bake cookies for White House tea parties instead of telling her to take up knitting.

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      2. Joel Bocko‏ @LostInTheMovies 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Just had to end an obnoxious email exchange with an acquaintance who not only equated them but kept harping in the former and dismissing the latter, all beneath an “I’m a classical liberal annoyed with *both* extremes” facade.

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      3. Joel Bocko‏ @LostInTheMovies 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @LostInTheMovies @HeerJeet

        Other than the dwindling batch of strident Never Trumpers, this seems to be THE favored retreat for those who just want to maintain the status quo.

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      1. Iris Pangburn‏ @Calamitatis 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Lately I'm just disgusted by the lame reasoning, false equivalence and herd mentality that characterizes so much public discourse-- coming from people who occupy nice pundit perches and ought to be smarter.

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      2. Gerry Canavan‏ @gerrycanavan 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet @PatBlanchfield

        Also his outrage is always bad-faith motivated reasoning and exclusively directed at the left.

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      3. Phil Perspective‏ @PhilPerspective 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @gerrycanavan @HeerJeet @PatBlanchfield

        I would expect nothing less from Marty Peretz's coffee boy of approximately 15 years.

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      2. Ben Wheeler‏ @benjiwheeler 14 Jun 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Who is equating the two?

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