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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      4. East Coast Straussians are mainly old Cold War Liberals or establishment Republicans: support American global hegemony.

      2 replies 5 retweets 16 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      5. West Coast Straussians -- really the students of the late Harry Jaffa -- are more aligned with GOP grassroots & Christian right.

      3 replies 5 retweets 16 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      6. The founders of the two respective schools -- Harry Jaffa & Allan Bloom -- were friends once, co-writing a book on Shakespeare's Politics

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      7. Jaffa & Bloom had a falling out with Jaffa calling Bloom & East Coast Straussians "nihilists." East Coasters responded Jaffa was a "pest"

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      8. The Jaffa/Bloom falling out can't be separated from sex. Jaffa was extreme homophobe, Bloom closeted gay man with door half-open.

      1 reply 4 retweets 16 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      9. Jaffa's homophobia complicated by fact he enjoyed intense homoerotic relations with his male students.pic.twitter.com/PZifPDL0N3

      5 replies 4 retweets 15 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      10. For Bloom, gay sex okay so long as it was private & no political gay identity. Jaffa wanted to stick with strenuous bike rides.

      1 reply 3 retweets 25 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      11. Out of the sexual divide between Jaffa and Bloom emerged a whole sociological divide.

      1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      12. Jaffa-inflected West Coasters aligned with religious right while more cosmopolitan East Coasters aligned with Pentagon hawks.

      2 replies 3 retweets 14 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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      13. But root difference is regime change. East Coasters want to impose regime change on Middle East, West Coasters want regime change in USA

      2 replies 5 retweets 22 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016

      14. I go into greater depth on West Coast Straussians and Trump here:https://newrepublic.com/article/137410/pro-trump-intellectuals-want-overthrow-america …

      9:56 AM - 4 Oct 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Oct 2016
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          15. I think key takeway is that the big problem isn't West Coast Straussians supporting Trump but that they welcome regime change in USA.

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        3. Femela‏ @femelafemela 4 Oct 2016
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          what do you mean by regime change

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        2. Bonnie Kavoussi‏Verified account @bkavoussi 4 Oct 2016
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          Fascinating contrast. Reminds me of how the ancient Greeks viewed sophrosyne as an essential virtue for democracy.

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        3. Bonnie Kavoussi‏Verified account @bkavoussi 4 Oct 2016
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          They contrasted their austere democracy with the Persians' rich, expanding, authoritarian empire. Supposedly lacking sophrosyne.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Ken Cunningham‏ @BRusselsghost 4 Oct 2016
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          I wonder if it isn't more banal than deep philosophy. As U.S. power to impose its will on others recedes, it leaves but 1 option.

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        1. Terry Baucher‏ @Trabaq 4 Oct 2016
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          @ShakingStick @NewRepublic Fascinating if a little disturbing, thanks

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        1. J Poulin‏ @JosephPoulin175 4 Oct 2016
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          @NewRepublic Well that's terrifying.

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