Looking forward to this tweet popping up in future history books that puzzle over who Ian Bremmer was and why he was famous-ish.https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1056993240904359937 …
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Replying to @David_Leheny
Lol, I'll never understand the love affair all these American liberals have with Abe.
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Replying to @nick_kapur @David_Leheny
Abe’s record in office has actually been substantively less populist and less right wing than many of the current leaders of the rest of the first world, would you disagree with that?
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Replying to @diefenbackerj @David_Leheny
Yes I would, but not because he didn't want to be more right wing. It's structural.
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Replying to @nick_kapur @David_Leheny
Alright, yeah I agree. I don’t think what you’re seeing is really a ‘love affair’ though, I think people like Bremmer and other Abe boosters like
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Not sure where Noah is now, but I used to argue with him at length about Abe. I argued what really motivated Abe was the right wing and Con Rev stuff, and that Abenomics was mostly rhetorical, whereas Noah insisted the ConRev was rhetorical, and Abe was committed to Abenomics.
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And I was correct, it turned out
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Lol, you haven't changed at all.
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Yep. I'm still right, and I still get the facts! 
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