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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Oct 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Nate Cohn

      1. This is a good thread on why the dream of an American Orban is a fantasy but the people who it is addressing won't be able to listen because it's premised on working within a democracy and they've given up on democracy.https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1452310829458722833 …

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      Nate CohnVerified account @Nate_Cohn
      There's a nice piece on American conservatives and Hungary in NYT Magazine today, and reading some of the conservatives in there made me think it might be worth pointing something obvious out: Hungary isn't America https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/magazine/viktor-orban-rod-dreher.html …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Oct 2021

      2. The post-liberal right recognizes they can't win a majority but they also realize (as liberals like @nate_cohn refuse to do) that you can govern in USA as a minority. Lots of leeway to do that through electoral college, gerrymandering & courts. And lots of precedent.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Oct 2021

          3. As Willmoore Kendall used to say, the true American tradition isn't just the town hall but running someone out on a rail. So, the true American tradition isn't just individualism & democracy but also Jim Crow, courts & Senate thwarting popular majorities, etc.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Oct 2021

          4. It's interesting to compare Judith Butler's excellent new piece in Guardian with Rod Dreher's latest praise of Putin. Both Butler & Dreher recognize that gender reaction will require autocracy. Butler thinks that's bad, Dreher good.

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        2. Nate Cohn‏Verified account @Nate_Cohn 24 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          lol hard to take you seriously after such a ludicrous and dishonest statement--obviously people, myself included, know you can win in the US as a minority

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        3. Nate Cohn‏Verified account @Nate_Cohn 24 Oct 2021
          Replying to @Nate_Cohn @HeerJeet

          my point, though, is that winning as a minority does not make you a majority culture. instituting Orban-like policies--say, banning some gender studies programs or whatever--will not create a conservative national culture

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        1. The Real SanFranSam‏ @SanFranSam_54 24 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @Nate_Cohn

          I would like to believe that you are right re an Orban fantasy but To extent that the right minority retains power they will change the rules to make it increasingly difficult for pro-democracy majority to get back in power. The pro-dem may do so eventually but damage will bedone

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