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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The Hill

      What's fascinating here is the use of the word "strong." I would say a party that has achieved an amazing constitutional revolution of overturning a 50 year old decision, an achievement that took a focused movement overturning norms over decades, is "strong."https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1523812812434329602 …

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      .@SpeakerPelosi: "I want the Republican Party to take back the party to where you were when you cared about a woman's right to choose, you cared about the environment. Here I am, Nancy Pelosi, saying this country needs a strong Republican Party. Not a cult." pic.twitter.com/h12SSFQKdk
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The Hill

      Counterpoint: GOP = relentlessly pursuing overturning of Roe for decades, doing whatever it takes, winning = strong Dems = unable to defend basic rights = not strong.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1523812812434329602 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      0:57
      The HillVerified account @thehill
      .@SpeakerPelosi: "I want the Republican Party to take back the party to where you were when you cared about a woman's right to choose, you cared about the environment. Here I am, Nancy Pelosi, saying this country needs a strong Republican Party. Not a cult." pic.twitter.com/h12SSFQKdk
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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Imagine if there were a Democratic leadership class that was intent on fighting the GOP as it exists without fantasizing about a GOP that hasn't existed for many decades (since, maybe, Eisenhower).

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted ryan cooper

      This is, I think, the interpretation of what Pelosi means by "strong." But it does her little credit. In truth, a party that delivers for its voters is strong. A party that exists to quell its voters is not strong but a comprador organizationhttps://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1523843074379726850 …

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      ryan cooperVerified account @ryanlcooper
      Replying to @HeerJeet
      per @_FleerUltra I think what she means is a party with an elite that can suppress the desires of its voters
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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted constans

      This is an interesting point, a corollary of nostalgia for a "strong Republican party."https://twitter.com/constans/status/1523848670323564547 …

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      constans @constans
      Replying to @Kimmiemac21 @HeerJeet
      It’s kind of becoming clear that the democratic leadership views the younger democrats as naive and destructive because they don’t see republicans as potential allies but rather opponents, and they want to keep those democrats out of power for as long as possible
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tyler Dinucci!!

      Also an interesting point. I agree that it's important to have conservative buy-in to liberal democracy. But I just don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.https://twitter.com/TylerDinucci/status/1523848362448936965 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Tyler Dinucci!! @TylerDinucci
      People always make a big thing when she says things like this but there’s a pretty persuasive political theory that the ability for democracies to exists is predicated on its inevitable conservative party buying into the idea of liberal democracy at all https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/06/ziblatt-democracy-conservative-parties/530118/ … https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1523812812434329602 …
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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 9

          Jeet Heer Retweeted The Hill

          One last point. In this talk, Pelosi also says: "Rather than say, 'We have to defeat them,' no, let's just try to persuade them." I find that baffling. Best way to persuade is to first defeat.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1523812812434329602 …

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          .@SpeakerPelosi: "I want the Republican Party to take back the party to where you were when you cared about a woman's right to choose, you cared about the environment. Here I am, Nancy Pelosi, saying this country needs a strong Republican Party. Not a cult." pic.twitter.com/h12SSFQKdk
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        1. Goobernaculum‏ @Jawndenver1 May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          There is also a difference between accepting the premise of liberal democracy and democratic leadership advocating for a strong opposition of liberal ideas

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        1. Tyler Dinucci!!‏ @TylerDinucci May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Oh yeah I don’t know if it’s going to happen anytime soon per se, but the actual theory outlined I actually find fairly persuasive.

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        2. Peter Raleigh‏ @PetreRaleigh May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I don't think that's what she means anyway. I think she's talking about the sort of Whig-theory idea that there is an affirmative societal need for conservatives to cut spending and slow the pace of change

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        3. Peter Raleigh‏ @PetreRaleigh May 9
          Replying to @PetreRaleigh @HeerJeet

          She's talking about a Republican party that is a necessary partner in managing the New Deal state in that someone needs to prevent it from expanding too quickly. In other words this is doe-eyed Cold War liberalism

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        1. Ipswich DeLacey, Omnistream Sensation‏ @vexwerewolf May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jeet, there will NEVER be ANY conservative buy-in to democracy. The only choice is to stamp out conservatism.

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        1. ItsJustRuss  🇺🇦‏ @RFfromMass May 9
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Wishing for “conservative buy-in” is no different at al than pining for some once-upon-a-time Republican Party. “Conservative” is empirically anathema to liberal democracy, and so is any version of the Republican Party from the last 50 years.

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        1. Tom Doran  🇺🇦‏ @portraitinflesh May 9
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          Has Pelosi said anything to lead you to believe she thinks it'll happen anytime soon?

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        1. John Valentine‏ @JohnLouisville May 10
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I’m still waiting for someone to name just one solely conservative policy that is good for the nation as a whole.

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        1. Please get boostered, wear your mask.‏ @dereksbabble May 10
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          And, in fact, the only way to wake them from the spell is to win and legislate so vigorously and popularly that R's are forced back to rational, self-interested participation.

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