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Professor, author of "Our Own Worst Enemy." Curmudgeon. Cat guy. Democracy enthusiast. Board of Contributors, @USAToday, Contributing Writer, @TheAtlantic.

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    Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Jun 14

    Tom Nichols Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

    This is the new mode of argument, apparently. Ignore the things that are actually happening, and then try to create a case for the GOP because of a detailed scenario that might happen five years from now. Call it "preemptive whataboutism."https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1404487677542600710 …

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    Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
    The answer to that was always going to be no. https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/1404487490011111428 …
    10:21 AM - 14 Jun 2021
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      1. Jimmy Hester‏ @geekjimmy Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Or "dumb"

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      1.  🦎SwampLizard 🦎‏ @DiscoTempoJazz Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Reactive prognostication

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      1. csd‏ @csd Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        GOP arguments sound a lot like Daniel Ortega’s arguments.

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      2. The Next Day‏ @incompetusrex Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Republicans justify everything these days by imagining that Democrats would act in bad faith in precisely the same manner if the roles were reversed.

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      3. Sam GMan‏ @smgstryker Jun 14
        Replying to @incompetusrex @RadioFreeTom

        AKA "projection"

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      1. Circle Back Pat‏ @CircleBackPat Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        What are Republicans whatabouting, Tom? They aren’t whatabouting a detailed scenario that might happen a few years from now, are they?

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      1. Steveweve‏ @Brewersteveweve Jun 14
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        It's not whataboutism, it's whatwewoulddoism.

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      1. Ivy Millerand‏ @imillerand1 Jun 14
        Replying to @RadioFreeTom

        Great coinage!

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      1. cubs2016‏ @booklov78 Jun 14
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        Lawyer: why’d you shoot your neighbor? Me: Though he might kill me in 2027. Republican jury: Not guilty!

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      1. Larry Gassan‏ @larrygassan Jun 14
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        I first read that as “preemptive whatabotulism”

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