2. Cheney's speech is filled with Cold War references: "communist domination...Castro's totalitarian regime...Soviet gulag...the cusp of another Cold War -- this time with communist China." The argument is USA needs to unite in order to combat Red China
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3. Cheney's invocation of the Cold War (and her call for a new one) makes sense when you realize that historically the United States is fractious nation needing external threats to unify. But does this politics of elite consensus still work?https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/cheneys-cold-war-nostalgia-is-no?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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really hard for some people to realize that two groups of people who hate each other can both be bad
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similarly two groups of people who hate each other can both be good as well
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The new Cold War already exists. A clear head while regarding 2016 and 2020 would confirm it.
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Any split is a political dead end until either R party collapses or we end up with some sort of authoritarian government
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One note: the America conservatives harken back to most is one in the early stages of said Cold War, with a unifying enemy for the country and especially conservatives
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The story shouldn’t be Liz Cheney at all, but the Republican Party’s absolute rejection of anyone in its ranks who won’t peddle a “stolen election” lie.
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if there's one thing that will unite the right, liberals, and even some leftists, it's sinophobia
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