Jeet Heer has mastered the art of confidently using pretentious words he doesn't understand, knowing that most people will be too intimidated to challenge him and risk looking stupid. But some of us know what gestalt means, and that ain't it.
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It's very normal and not at all a pretentious torture of language to say "Clintonian-Obamamite gestalt" when you mean "the democratic party"pic.twitter.com/pPdmrs0pKm
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I think Jeet means "faction" or maybe "worldview." He's pointing out that Chait is a booster of a certain kind of centrist, technocratic Democrat.
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Replying to @beyerstein @MenshevikM and
Except his “faction” is like 95% of the Democratic party electorate. It’s that game the Jacobros started playing after the 2016 election of pejoratively referring to non-Repubs who weren’t Bernie zealots as “centrists”
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Replying to @DanaHoule @beyerstein and
What percentage of the vote did Bernie get in the 2016 Democratic primaries?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein and
What percentage of the Democratic electorate voted in the primaries?
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So Democratic primary is not a fair gauge of Democratic party preferences. Cool, cool.
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