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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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*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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