@aoscott @yeselson @chrislhayes Should add that I'm not thinking so much about TNC personally as where the logic of his position would lead
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes I think he's very close to where JBaldwin was in the early 60s--a clear and unsentimental internal critic1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes of American liberalism.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes Yes. That's shrewd comparison, there is a plaintive intensity to his prose like Baldwin's. But the1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes difference: Baldwin (and others) were chronicling the explosion of the civil rights movement, the fire next1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes time had arrived, or was imminent. Not the case today, only logic of the nation's great sin without the1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aoscott@HeerJeet@chrislhayes countervailing righteous power of the great movement.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@yeselson@aoscott@chrislhayes Yes: in terms of intensity of analysis TNC is Baldwin of 1960s but faces political situation of JB in 1970s3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet@yeselson@chrislhayes or a completely new one: a black president and a recrudescence of barely-disguised white supremacy.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@chrislhayes @aoscott @yeselson Completely agree. Newness of situation is what's driving TNC to grapple with the big questions.
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