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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 4

      1. From the start, this has been a transphobic & homophobic moral panic. Sullivan egged it on at the start for clout & because he thought there was enough plausible deniability to hide its intent. Once that intent is blindingly clear, he's backtracking.pic.twitter.com/5YG18Kgz2N

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 4

      2. This is Sullivan's constant modus operandi: advocate far right positions when they are riding high, back-track and obfuscate on them when there is a backlash, collect points from dunderheaded centrists & liberals for supposedly being willing to learn. Rinse, repeat.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 4

      3. The clearest example was in Iraq War: post-9/11 uber-hawk warning of liberal Fifth Columnist, then when torture regime & insurgency clear Sullivan offered up Prufockian hand-wringing, "this is not what I meant at all."

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Apr 4

          4. Sullivan's whole schtick only works because centrists & liberals are willing to take him at face value, forgive & forget his extremism, explain things away. They do that because they crave a "reasonable" conservative. It allows them to avoid seeing the right with clarity.

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        1. Miguel Lobo‏ @mlobo Apr 4
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          Pedantic note: 1. Prufrockian, with two Rs. 2. That line is not strictly Prufrockian in that it is not said by Alfred J. but rather, hypothetically so, by his love interest (while "settling a pillow by her head"). 100% agreed on Sullivan.

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        2. MH‏ @1_6_54 Apr 4
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is somewhat unfair. He didn’t merely acknowledge his mistakes after Iraq to show he could grow. He was relentlessly self critical. And before someone says “so it worked on you”, I still think Sullivan is often totally unreasonable and hysterical. Not always, but often.

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        3. Secretary of Balloon Doggies‏ @aceoaces Apr 4
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          No, he still attacked people who were against the war from the beginning, basically saying they were against it for the wrong reasons.

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