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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      2. Trump has called on Clinton to be jailed. As have other Republicans: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/02/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-imprisoned/ …

      11 replies 47 retweets 53 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      3. So what's become a standard GOP position is that Hillary Clinton not only needs to be defeated politically, she needs to be punished.

      15 replies 62 retweets 93 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      4. Where does this punitive urge come from? Partially it's a standard conservative belief in retribution, but amped up & politicized.

      20 replies 52 retweets 91 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      5. There's an argument (Joe Klein once made it) that Watergate started a cycle of both parties criminalizing political differences.

      16 replies 37 retweets 90 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      6. Euring Iran-Contra aftermath it was right who complained loudest about criminalizing political differences:https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/the-criminalization-of-politics-rick-perry-soemary-lehmberg/ …

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      7. But I resist "both sides do it" because GOP rhetoric seems asymmetrically extreme.

      6 replies 42 retweets 105 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      8. But it's not just GOP extremism. Note difference of treatment of Obama & Clinton. Obama is portrayed as alien, Clinton as criminal.

      8 replies 82 retweets 139 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      9. It's hard to avoid conclusion that there is a gender dimension here. Clinton is a bad woman, someone who has violated natural order.

      21 replies 98 retweets 191 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      10. Trump's comments about how women should be punished for abortion was a classic gaffe: not a lie but a revelation of hidden feeling.

      13 replies 91 retweets 150 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Nichols

      11. False equivalence here. Grayson not same as Trump (presidential nominee).https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/754509844674076672 …

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      Tom NicholsVerified account @RadioFreeTom
      That's because it's what you focus on, instead of Alan Grayson talking about blood dripping from Cheney's teeth. https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/754508818399293440 …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016

      12. What's interesting is the disjunction between Clinton (a banal mainstream politician) & the extreme emotions she generates.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2016
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          13. Politically Clinton is very mainstream Dem, in same spectrum as John Kerry or Biden. Yet she generates desire to punish that they don't.

          52 replies 93 retweets 168 likes
        3. James Stanhope‏ @ManchurianDevil 16 Jul 2016
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          One reason is that she's a woman. Male politicians don't provoke that visceral a phobia.

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        1. J Wood‏ @mxyzplx 16 Jul 2016
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          And that's a problem, because when all their reactions are over-reactions, it makes any criticism easy to ignore.

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        1. Fusilli Spock‏ @awstar11 16 Jul 2016
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          "benal" & "mainstream" are irrefutably subjective opinions.

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        1. William Berkson‏ @WilliamBerkson 16 Jul 2016
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          Republicans have to demonize, because they can't engage policy debate. Was same with Clinton, Obama.

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        1. Ester Bloom‏Verified account @shorterstory 16 Jul 2016
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          only when she runs for office tho. As others have noted, when she's appointed her ratings go way up. People hate seeing her strive

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        1. Lord Bishop‏ @Bishop_BBC 16 Jul 2016
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          She's mainstream to DEMs. But she's Bernie-type left to GOPs. Bc of '90s healthcare. OCare before OCare was cool.

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        2. Ann  🌻 Taylor‏ @anncarsona 16 Jul 2016
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          @RadioFreeTom That's the bottom line. She's not likable. But to continually call her criminal is just politics at its worst.

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        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 16 Jul 2016
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          I'm certain that her emails included CGI pay-for-play, but hey, she deleted them, so she skates. @HeerJeet

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        1. Sarah Lilly (Heidt) Eaton‏ @sarahlillyheidt 16 Jul 2016
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          None of this explains why a person like me has such a visceral anti-Clinton reaction. Female, over-educated, non-misongynist. Meh.

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