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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

      1. The Federalist Society has a John Eastman problem, which is very similar to Mitch McConnell's Donald Trump problem: what to do with a crucial political ally who has bad optics & damages your attempt to present yourself as a responsible pillar of mainstream.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

      2. Eastman is a longstanding senior member of Federalist Society & also, because of his memos, the most visible legal face of Trumpist attempt to game system to overturn 2020 election. More than a lawyer, he's Trump's consigliere.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

      3. The reason Eastman is a problem for Federalist Society is that the organization is essentially an ideological laundering operation. It's job is to take right-wing policy preferences & gussy them in respectable legal garb. But to do that you need mainstream buy-in.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

          4. The ideological laundry operation only works if you are maintain two-faces: a right face of partisan rectitude that attracts the believers and a left face of "we're just a debating society" to get Ivy League big law types (admittedly easy marks) to give you stamp of approval

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

          5. The Federalist Society is caught in a trap with Eastman: they can neither explicitly disavow him (he represents too big a faction of their membership & donors) nor can they publicly embrace (which would reveal to even lunkhead centrists & MSM the nature of their politics).

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Oct 2021

          6. So far, Federalist Society has dealt with this through a quiet subrosa distancing from Eastman. But whether that can hold is doubtful. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-federalist-societys-silent-brush?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …

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        1. Wallingford Riegger‏ @RieggerRie1 14 Oct 2021
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          Slightly annoying that an organization ideologically closest to John C. Calhoun calls itself Federalist.

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        1. garage d’or‏ @ahoy_polloi 14 Oct 2021
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          I think after 50 years of this dynamic being successful it’s time to stop pretending there’s any daylight between “right-wing policy preferences”, “respectable legal garb”, and “mainstream buy-in”. 🤔

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