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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020

      8. So: what's wrong with the idea of having a smart bipartisan elite that marginalizes extreme voices of the right and left? Isn't that an attractive approach to politics? Don't we want stability and continuity?

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020

      9. One way to see the limits of Hofstadter's vision of consensus is to say that he saw the dangers of the extreme left and extreme right but not the dangers of the extreme center: the way in which a bipartisan elite, unchecked, can carry out mad policies: Viet Nam war.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020

      10. Hofstader's brother-in-law, the socialist novelist Harvey Swados, read his essay on "the Paranoid style" and said: yes, you got Goldwater and the Birch Society down, but isn't what LBJ is doing in Vietnam also an example of the paranoid style.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020

      11. Hofstadter responded to Swados saying, LBJ's policies are wrong, but not irrational. But Swados was right: LBJ thought North Vietnam was puppet of Red China & anti-war movement simply created by communists. That was pure paranoia, as unhinged as any Birch fantasy.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020

      12. In our own day, the biggest disasters have been centrist policies: the Iraq War, the 2008 meltdown followed by quick turn to austerity. Iraq was creation of neo-cons, the most "centrist" part of GOP coalition (many are now Never Trumpers) & supported by Clinton/Biden etc.

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    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      There’s no sense in which the Iraq War was a centrist project.

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    7. Daniel Pearson‏Verified account @DPearsonPHL 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

      What centrist politician opposed the war?

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    8. Daniel Pearson‏Verified account @DPearsonPHL 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @DPearsonPHL @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet

      John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John McCain, Mitt Romney...

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    9. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @DPearsonPHL @danpearson266 @HeerJeet

      Lincoln Chafee, Kent Conrad, Robert Byrd, Jon Corzine, Dick Durbin, Bob Graham, Jim Jeffords, Patrick Leahy, Bob Menendez, Patty Murray, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Ryan, Jim Webb.

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    10. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @danpearson266 @HeerJeet

      But anyway that’s not the point. The Iraq War happened solely at the instigation of the neocons. It wouldn’t have happened had Gore - the most centrist Dem imaginable -had been elected. It was a hard-right project legitimized by the manufacture of intelligence.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Oct 2020
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @danpearson266

      As I said, the neo-cons are the most centrist part of the GOP coalition. Faction started off as Cold War liberals, with ties to Scoop Jackson & DP Moynihan, have maintained many ties to centrist institutions like Washington Post, CFR, & are mostly Never Trump.

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @danpearson266

          I know how neocons began. But defining Dick Cheney as a centrist distorts the term beyond all meaning.

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        3. Faire Comments‏ @FaireComments 6 Oct 2020
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @danpearson266

          He said “most centrist”. That could be quite far right of the actual center.

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