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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

    1. The problem with this formulation is that it sees illiberalism & extremism as rooted only in far left & far right. But historically the most dangerous illiberalism is from centrists.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/971802635912269829 …

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    Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
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    And there's also no question that extremism on the right is a far bigger problem than extremism on the left.
    10:40 AM - 8 Mar 2018
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2018

        2. The most dangerous attacks on free speech in modern American history (1919 Red Scare & McCarthyism) both had support from mainstream, centrist figures.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2018

        3. Woodrow Wilson (mainstream progressive liberal) jailed people for their beliefs. The roots of McCarthyism were in Truman's loyalty oaths program & coddling of J. Edgar Hoover.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2018

        4. The FBI's war against Martin Luther King was aided & often led by centrist Democrats (the Kennedy administration, George Kennan, William Sullivan).

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      2. Clean Face  🌻‏ @theminorchords 8 Mar 2018
        Replying to @BennyDocter @HeerJeet

        Jeet seems to pointing out the way in which power plays out in all of this. So wherever power lies, the greatest danger of abuse also lies.

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      1. tag‏ @DenzildeanNY 8 Mar 2018
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        Centrists are responsible for bad government is what your long winded twisted explanation is saying?

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      2. David Hamlin‏ @Exfarmboy1 8 Mar 2018
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        This is true, but not because centrism is bad, but because it is (or has been) powerful. Far left and far right (in US) usually marginal, and need to ally with centrists to accomplish anything.

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      3. David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh‏ @DavidAstinWalsh 8 Mar 2018
        Replying to @Exfarmboy1 @HeerJeet

        I think this is an important point; however the “far left”—usually understood to mean the Communist Party—has had significantly less purchase than the “far right.” There was one MoC who was pro-communist in the ‘30s and ‘40s. There were a lot sympathetic to Hitler.

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      1. Chance Gardener‏ @ChanceBGardener 8 Mar 2018
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        This is absolutely true. The left and right both have some rights they won't sacrifice, but that's not true for our pragmatic centrist friends.

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      1. Julien N. Devereux‏ @jndevereux 8 Mar 2018
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        Get him, Jeet!

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