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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted GOP

    1. It's worth asking what the hell is going on with this tweet. Partially, its the cheap insult humor that the GOP thinks works well for Trump, doing the Beto the same thing Trump does when he calls Warren "Pocahontas."https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1107314663023353864 …

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    On this St. Paddy's Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O'Rourke. pic.twitter.com/JRjMEXhZRY
    11:39 AM - 17 Mar 2019
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    31 replies 145 retweets 551 likes
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

        2. The other thing though is that for the ethnonationalist right, increasingly ascendent in today's GOP, the "whiteness" status of groups like the Irish and Jews is still is dispute,

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

        3. You might think that the "whiteness" of Irish Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews was settled a long time ago in America, say 1945 at the latest. But in fact, there's an element of the right that has never been fully comfortable with that expansion of whiteness.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

        4. This can be most clearly seen in the writing of the late Samuel T. Francis, the paleo-conservative thinker whose writings of 1980s and 1990s anticipate Trumpism in many ways. Francis always made a distinction between White Anglo Protestant core America & rest

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

        5. In his book Beautiful Losers (1994) Francis located the weakness of postwar Conservative intellectual movement in fact that white anglo-Protestant core was underrepresented and it was dominated by Catholics (Buckley) and Jews (Strauss).

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2019

        6. I don't think we should read too much into this, it's probably a one-off insult. Especially since Irish Catholics do in fact make up a big chunk of the Trumpian right (Hannity, Conway, etc). But still shows how underlying beliefs can sometimes come to the surface.

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      2. Indermann Singh‏ @indermann 17 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Isn't GOP just party of Trump now? So it's natural they're following in his footprints.

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      3. sergio lopez luna‏ @sergiol652 17 Mar 2019
        Replying to @indermann @HeerJeet

        They have always been...

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      1. John O'Brien‏ @johnobrienuva 17 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Particularly moronic since so many Irish-Americans now think of themselves as Republicans.

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      1. Jimmy Madison‏ @Federalist_10 17 Mar 2019
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        I don’t think we should dive too deep here. The Republican Party is an openly racist cult of sociopaths, proudly anti-intellectual, proudly bigoted, easily duped and fiercely stupid. That pretty much explains everything they do.

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      2. THEE Ellen McGrath Smith‏ @breezely1462 17 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        They also want to make it clear that they can confer or deny white privilege at will.

        1 reply 4 retweets 55 likes
      3. Eric Morse  🇺🇦‏ @eriq49 17 Mar 2019
        Replying to @breezely1462 @HeerJeet

        I think there's a point here, even if only incidental, and perhaps unconscious intent. I'm old enough to remember some very nasty epithets that were socially acceptable, of which 'Deepee' was the merest and mildest.

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