Defectors naturally want to take their old status over to their new side, not be demoted to "person who is just now starting to get it."
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we need to move even further from a moral condemnation of individuals to a deep systemic understanding of how financialized monopoly capitalism compels capital export & drives geopolitical conflict among the competing state-affiliated capital hoards
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The Douthat column today, for example, seems a good example of the latter type of conversion (he seems to finally “get it”). I’m far more suspicious of the ones who seem to want to treat this as a one-off mulligan
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Yes.
@MaxBoot did this— he apologized properly and even did some self-reflection on why he and so many others got it wrong. I’ll take his apology, and I’d work with him in future. Ths interview w@DavidCornDC is good:https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/destroy-the-republican-party-max-boot-calls-for-a-clean-start/ … -
youre a mark too
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Check out this Robert Wright essay about how this wasn't just a mistake, it was a mistake America has made beforehttps://twitter.com/robertwrighter/status/1432533522468810764?s=19 …
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I fall into the “why not both?” camp: The Iraq war was a bad idea, conducted badly.
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