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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Julie Kelly  🇺🇸

      1. The error in responses like this: assuming the world consists only of permanently committed right-wingers & permanently committed left-wingers, leaving no point to being persuasive, reasonable, or even correct; all is just a test of competing Wills to Power. I reject that.https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1105090761824133120 …

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      Julie Kelly  🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2
      You could, for example, be this guy who actually thinks this is like a marriage instead of a war. That an apology and a bouquet to his enemies (the “victims” aren’t offended, just the phony defenders) will appease them. Guys like this in the cheap seats with nothing to lose: https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1104949194362703872 …
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    2. Julie Kelly  🇺🇸‏ @julie_kelly2 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Tucker said his comments were “naughty.” And the world now is Left and Right, sorry. Until you make a convincing case that some charitable middle lane exists, there’s simply no evidence to support that sentiment. Sounds nice - but isn’t real.

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @julie_kelly2

      Which political party won a majority of the popular vote in 2016? Neither. You reject the idea that there exist any swing voters, any young people who haven't chosen a team yet. That is the path to a forever dwindling coalition. Persuasion matters.

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    4. Julie Kelly  🇺🇸‏ @julie_kelly2 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      I don’t just view this as purely a political issue, though. And the relatively small swath of swing voters really have no clue what’s at stake. But I’m open to hearing what views on the Left and Right you think would sway voters to a non-Trumpian GOP.

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @julie_kelly2

      You start by not branding your own party as the party of jerks who don't give a crap about anybody who disagrees with them. A lot of politics is about respect; you can't win votes or converts from people who don't sense you respect them. Reagan did this best.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    6. Julie Kelly  🇺🇸‏ @julie_kelly2 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Meh, I don’t think politicians in general have respect for people who disagree with them. They’re thin-skinned by nature. But I’m legit curious about actual policies not personalities that will persuade swing voters. That’s an answer I can never get from Trump-skeptical Repubs.

      3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019
      Replying to @julie_kelly2

      There's a longer debate there, but the short answer is that personalities and honesty and decency and respect are often as important, if not moreso, to persuasion as policies are. Ignore them at your peril.

      7:21 AM - 11 Mar 2019
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        2. Julie Kelly  🇺🇸‏ @julie_kelly2 11 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          I don’t. I’ve criticized some of Trump’s behavior...I know it turns off some people I know. But when the Dems are worse or the GOP alternative is a milquetoast with quasi-Left ideas (Hogan, Kasich) I don’t see a legit alternative. And no, I have nothing but contempt for the Left

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        3. Jon‏ @jons6111 11 Mar 2019
          Replying to @julie_kelly2 @baseballcrank

          There’s a pretty good chance that in two years it will be clear in retrospect that this approach to politics by the Trumpist right delivered the White House to Bernie Sanders

          0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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        2. Julie Kelly  🇺🇸‏ @julie_kelly2 11 Mar 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Back to Tucker - do you not think this is simply a different version of what they did to KW?

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Mar 2019
          Replying to @julie_kelly2

          *Their* m.o. is always the same. That does not mean the comments at issue were the same. KW took a serious argument to an extreme conclusion to illustrate a point. Tucker was just being a juvenile jerk. Different facts require different responses.

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