Trump is a Tyrant: The Devolution of an Argument http://coreyrobin.com/2017/05/07/trump-is-a-tyrant-the-devolution-of-an-argument/ …
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
Your argument needs to grapple with the case
@DLind makes here:https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/3/15478548/trump-immigration-record …4 replies 2 retweets 17 likes -
Yep, I already did in my original Guardian piece. Among/upon immigrants is where I said he was in fact exercising tremendous coercive rule.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin @HeerJeet
In any event, this post is addressing a very different issue, which is how folks have dramatically scaled back the argument.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
But if Trump is imposing "coercive rule" among immigrants, that's sufficient evidence of authoritarian policy (not just intent).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
But I have no problem saying that his immigration policy is authoritarian. That's *very* different from claim you and others want to make.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin @HeerJeet
You want to make larger claim re the character of his regime as a whole. To do that, you're forced to fall back on intentions.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin
Actually, I've cautioned against using model of foreign dictatorships to describe Trump administration:https://newrepublic.com/article/140952/horrible-histories-perils-comparing-trump-stalin-hitler-dictators …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Neither here nor there for the issue that's under discussion now. And you do in fact invoke foreign regimes as useful comparison.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin @HeerJeet
You just did it 5 minutes ago, when you said autocratic regimes often empower lower bureaucrats to do dirty work.
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I think limited analogies of that kind are fine and illuminating as long as we remember differences between regimes.
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Replying to @emjayemjay @HeerJeet
Nah, just Jeet's way of arguing: throw up a lot of stuff, most of it distraction. You need to stay focused on the matter on hand. He won't.
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