IDK the intellectual honesty to do the reporting is good; it would be even better backed by the intellectual honesty to admit his original takes were shitty and wrong. Seems weird to blame people who didn't have shitty wrong takes for not doing the work to back up being right. https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1298656900003889152 …
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Then he's kidding himself about how confident and categorical he chose to be
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It remains true that we should not hold against an adult their crimes at 12. And I have to believe you agree with that. The question was always: what is he like now? That required reporting to know for sure. So how was that wrong?
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The argument has never been that a single act in childhood is disqualifying forever The argument is that the burden of proof is on him to demonstrate that he's changed since childhood, and he had no evidence
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And that even simply the passage of time with no new incidents would be evidence, if weak evidence But WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THAT Because he is only 19 And Glenn seemed to freak out that this would specifically prevent 19-YEAR-OLDS from ever seeking office
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Even though the general principle that "19-year-olds who committed a horrible crime as children will have to wait a little longer before running for office so the mud doesn't stick as well" seems like a fine general principle to me
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