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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Feb 2019

      1. So according to @CoreyRobin, I'm a believer in "Green Lanternism" -- the idea that a president can " reshape the public, their parties, and the polity...through words alone." I'm puzzled by this since this is the opposite of what I believe.http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/corey-robin-on-the-historovox-what-we-missed-about-trump.html …

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    2. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      God, I should know better than to get into this with you, but maybe answer one simple question for me. How is your point 5 (rhetoric "corrosive to democracy") NOT an instance of a president's words reshaping the polity.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @CoreyRobin

      To me, "reshaping a polity" means a systematic, structural change, of a sort I'm not claiming Trump is making. America is already a very weak democracy impaired by racism, and he's corroding it further. It's pretty simple.

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    4. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Sorry to be all tenured professor on you, but, like, the fucking foundations of all political science going back to the Greeks see things like the corrosion of democracy (or polity as Aristotle called it) as the definition of regime change.

      6 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @CoreyRobin

      It matters a lot if "regime change" takes place in a single administration or is a process over several generations. I've repeatedly said Trump is not sui generis but part of a longer racist counter-revolution going back to Goldwater (if not earlier). Not Green Lantern.

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    6. corey robin‏Verified account @CoreyRobin 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Okay, so now you are conceding that you're making an argument about regime change. You think Trump's rhetoric is advancing that regime change. In other words, you believe his rhetoric is reshaping the polity. Which you claimed you didn't believe.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Feb 2019
      Replying to @CoreyRobin

      Sigh. It seems pretty obvious to me that "advancing" a racist counter-revolution that has roots going back half a century or more is different than "reshap[ng] .. the polity...through words alone." The first is a historical claim, the second hyperbole.

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        2. Robert Swartz‏ @RobtNS 21 Feb 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin

          I feel like I'm watching a fight where all the punches are landing at very oblique angels.

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        3. Shlomo Fields‏ @Sshields_ 22 Feb 2019
          Replying to @RobtNS @HeerJeet @CoreyRobin

          Define twitter arguments in one sentence:

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