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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      I'll add that although I disagreed with most of what Hitchens wrote post-1998 or so, I do miss his voice, particularly when pious frauds like Billy Graham die.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      Another thing I would've loved Hitchens to have lived to write about is the evangelical embrace of Trump. That would've been such a juicy target. Hard to imagine he'd have resisted it.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      But, as a people have pointed out, Hitchens really hated the Clintons beyond reason. So, again, the safe spot for CH would've been somewhere between Sullivan & the Never Trump people who are still also very anti-left.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

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      Hitchens late life worldview also defined by militant atheism, which made him oppose GOP in 2008 election and would've made him hostile to man that made Mike Pence vice-president: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/982705861775777792 …

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      It's true that Hitchens supported Bush. But the errors that led him to that position (a misapplied internationalism & fantasy about transformative power of military adventures) aren't the errors that are typical of Trump supporters.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      To put it another way, there is a well-trod pathway from Trotskyism to neo-conservatism (or, in Hitchens case, being a neo-con fellow traveller): you replace Moscow with Washington as military lodestar of world revolutionary potential

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018

      But if there is a path between Trots & neo-cons, there's no real path from Trots to Trump or even (witness Never Trump movement) much of a path from neo-cons to Trump.

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    8. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 7 Apr 2018
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      The most notable neocon-to-Trump transition is David Horowitz, right? Am I forgetting someone else?

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018
      Replying to @notjessewalker

      Horowitz is the only one that comes to mind.

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    10. Matthew Elliot‏ @matttbastard 7 Apr 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @notjessewalker

      https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/former-critic-elliott-abrams-urges-donald-trump-to-ignore-generals-restraints-66m2k80js …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Apr 2018
      Replying to @matttbastard @notjessewalker

      But Abrams also signed a Never Trump letter, no?

      2:51 PM - 7 Apr 2018
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        1. Matthew Elliot‏ @matttbastard 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @notjessewalker

          Things change. Was up for a State position last year that was nixed by Bannon (and has remained effusive in his praise of Kushner). He's still open to joining the admin and has encouraged others to do so. Be interesting to see how things play out when Bolton & Pompeo move in.

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        1. Matthew Elliot‏ @matttbastard 7 Apr 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @notjessewalker

          Abrams wrote a critical piece for TWS in May 2016 (which reportedly soured Trump on him after Bannon brought it to his attention), but, as per CNN, never signed any of the Never Trump letters http://www.weeklystandard.com/when-you-cant-stand-your-candidate/article/2002283 … https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/10/politics/elliott-abrams-trump-state-department-tillerson/index.html …

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