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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Dec 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Geoff Kabaservice

    This is a good thread making a case that I find completely implausible (that the center right is the best barrier against the far right).https://twitter.com/RuleandRuin/status/1074880869620424704 …

    Jeet Heer added,

    Geoff Kabaservice @RuleandRuin
    1. How should the left think about the right? The past week brought 4 examples of different approaches. Start with George Packer's historical overview of "The Corruption of the Republican Party"... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/how-did-republican-party-get-so-corrupt/578095/ …
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    • luft_mensch Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick Jay Jeffers V and Vrious Niles H. Frasier Erick Brown ⚡︎ J-S Poupart ⚡︎ Vikram Rai Brad DeLong 🖖
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Dec 2018

        Jeet Heer Retweeted Seth Cotlar

        This is a quite devastating rebuttal to the Kabaservice thread I just linked to:https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1075053442681294849 …

        Jeet Heer added,

        Seth Cotlar @SethCotlar
        Replying to @lionel_trolling
        That is such an odd thread. a) we're building a center-right detached from the conservative movement. b) we have no big media presence and only small patches of grass-roots support c) only *we* have the power to combat the GOP far right, not those 65 million dumb-ass Dems. Huh?
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      1. NDA Required‏ @md_jubes 18 Dec 2018
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        Center right is the gateway right

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      2. Laura J. Mixon  🇺🇦‏ @LauraJMG 18 Dec 2018

        This!

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      2. Patrick Wyman‏Verified account @Patrick_Wyman 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        What’s most myopic here is the lack of understanding that by any reasonable standard, the center right can be found in the Democratic Party.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @Patrick_Wyman

        Bingo!

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      1. Joshua Carnes‏ @CARNZEE 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        There aren't enough center right voters for a center right party to prevail democratically. You need racism/cultural anxiety to turn people out for "small government reforms" that few give a damn about.

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      2. Laura J. Mixon  🇺🇦‏ @LauraJMG 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I’m 61 and my first vote was for Jimmy Carter, at age 21. My experience throughout adulthood was that the landscape was quite different from what he describes.

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      3. Laura J. Mixon  🇺🇦‏ @LauraJMG 18 Dec 2018
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        During the Reagan and Bush I eras, liberals were demonized. The AIDS crisis was used as a weapon against the LGBTQ community. Political leaders catered to and stoked white anxiety against other races.

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      1. Laurence Raphael Brothers‏ @lbrothers 18 Dec 2018
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        Of course the left is the best defense against the right. With virtually no left left in the US, as it were, we've seen the far right spin out of control and drag the center rightward after it as well.

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