1. The Liz Cheney speech is causing a lot of ripples but people aren't paying attention to what she actually said (which is crucial for understanding why her brand of anti-Trump Republicanism is a political dead end): she's calling for a new Cold War.
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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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It's clear that there has to be a war with someone. They're just arguing over whether it should be China, Russia, or civil
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>The argument is USA needs to unite in order to combat Red China How is this any different from Trumpism?
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>There are some erstwhile leftists, notably Glenn And why do you label GG a "leftist?"
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I think Taiwanese deserves to be at the top of that list of nations.
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The US is not on the “cusp” of a new Cold War, it is deeply enmeshed in one, this time against both Russia (not even Communist any more!) and China.
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"It's like invading [Afghanistan] for what [Saudi Arabia] did."
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