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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Andrew Sullivan

      In 1964 Richard Hofstadter thought that the GOP's rightwing fever would break after Goldwater's trouncing. Subsequent Democrats hoped for moderation of GOP after Watergate, Iran/Contra, 1992 loss, 2008 loss and 2012 loss. It's a fantasy that refuses to die.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1314611108381110274 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
      "A Biden landslide is the only thing that can possibly, finally break the fever that has destroyed the GOP as a legitimate right-of-center political party, and turned it into a paranoid, media-driven, fact-free festival of fear and animus." https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dreaming-of-a-landslide?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzE3OTgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo3Nzk1MDUyLCJfIjoiN3IwbVoiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDIyNjIzODYsImV4cCI6MTYwMjI2NTk4NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.OKc2cjlbL4kYUkXz0SpVsoVi8cUOLbzO8R5k2zlHN3I …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020

      Rather than dreaming about some mythical return of moderate Republicans, liberals would be better off understanding that a bid chunk of America (say 30-35%) are revanchist right & another big chunk is willing to ally with revanchist right. That's the permanent reality.

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        2. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          One might add that what when I was young (in the late Cenozoic) we would have called moderate Republicans are now a substantial part of the Democratic Party --- as in, ahem, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

          6 replies 6 retweets 80 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @davidrieff

          Exactly. As Obama is alleged to have said, the Democrats are the Eisenhower Republicans now.

          7 replies 6 retweets 74 likes
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        2. Nonya Bizness‏ @NonyaBizness321 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Sullivan, of ALL people, yearns for a moderate GOP? The same a-hole who called Iraq war protesters a "fifth column"?

          1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
        3. Matthew‏ @Roland00Address 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @NonyaBizness321 @HeerJeet

          Yes, he swings from his own extremes. Sometimes fascists have good ideas, to why is everyone so horrible to the point they are making me sympathetic to fascists, why not give me ”moderate conservatism” in a way I get everything I desire plus I remain eternally triumphant for it

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        2. Jonathan Spector‏ @spectorjon 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Because the core of GOP is the marriage of broadly unpopular social policy with wildly unpopular economic policy, the fever can never break. What would a Conservative party intent on winning a majority of voters even stand for? It’d be a totally new party.

          4 replies 0 retweets 32 likes
        3. Upthorn‏ @ActualUpthorn 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @spectorjon @HeerJeet

          No, it'd just be the Democrats.

          0 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
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        1. James Phillips‏ @Arlecchinoswart 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @Popehat

          What might work, though, is a Dem commitment to restoring majority rule. White nationalism only succeeds because of the counter majoritarian elements of our system.

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        2. (((Rafi-El)))‏ @rafilaufer 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          It's hard for a party that has only 30-35% support to hold, let alone maintain, national power, even with the anti-democratic mechanisms we have in place. If a Biden administration successfully bypasses the GOP, we could see a period of liberal ascendancy not unlike 1932-1968.

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        1. Just a Guy  ☮️‏ @ClarkADavidson 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @Popehat

          I need to keep my dictionary handy with some tweeters.

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