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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. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      I believe you have convinced yourself of that in order to avoid any cognitive dissonance or requirement to change your political choices.

      3 replies 1 retweet 47 likes
    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      You should know better than to assume expertise is meaningless. Long, serious study of Constitutional law yields this answer. My discussion started with Buttigieg, who pushed the Court-packing plan into the POTUS race. That's banana republic stuff. Would end the rule of law.

      8 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Expertise is no match for deeply held political beliefs fused to confirmation bias. Like many “I have no choice” cons, you’re ignoring the actual destruction of the rule of law underway and rationalizing it with horror stories of what could happen if Dems control all the things.

      4 replies 1 retweet 41 likes
    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      Your argument about the Democrats is that they present no threat to either act on their openly avowed proposals, nor act in accord w/their uniform patterns of behavior in power, because they're not in power. You then propose to give them that power. That's not much of a plan.

      4 replies 7 retweets 31 likes
    5. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      My argument is that they are notional threat that is far less likely, and far less dangerous in scale, than *what is happening right in front of you at this very moment.* If you want to rationalize Trump by saying you're preventing the Sharia SCOTUS of 2045, fine.

      6 replies 1 retweet 29 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

      I also think that you, for all your talk of expertise, are intentionally ignoring that you can vote out the Dems if they screw up. But this is a crisis that can only be ended by defeating Trump at the polls, and you are straw-manning it to death, which is not honest.

      3 replies 1 retweet 29 likes
    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      Can we vote out a 15-member life-tenured SCOTUS? No. 22% of the current Court is the result of the 1992 election. And really, that's the tip of the iceberg of permanent, irreversible structural change.

      9 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      That’s not going to happen; this is like taking to Rain Man about plane crashes.

      4 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    9. Andrew S.‏ @shoutingboy 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

      If we apply the "don't worry about the crazy crap they say, that's never going to happen" rubric evenhandedly, then Trump becomes a lot less scary.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
      Replying to @shoutingboy @baseballcrank

      Except that Trump is doing the things to the rule of law and the Constitution that I said he would do - and he's doing them *right now*. There are a lot of structural barriers to the Great Leftist Apocalypse, and that's all just a dodge for "I prefer Trump."

      4 replies 3 retweets 23 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 7 May 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

      Of the things we disagree on, this may be #1. Decades of experience tell us that the institutional resistance to bad lefty ideas is much, much less than the institutional resistance & constraint Trump has faced. To a very large extent today, the institutions *are* the left.

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        1. Populares Stan Account‏ @mgraalum 7 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          The left has been completely purged from power for years

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        1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 7 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          Evidence?

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        2. Scottie‏ @ix_sir 7 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          The only “constraint” Trump has faced is people who work for him who feel empowered to ignore him because they know he has the attention span of a five year old. Certainly elected GOP officials have offered zero real pushback and it’s disingenuous to claim otherwise.

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        3. Scottie‏ @ix_sir 7 May 2019
          Replying to @ix_sir @baseballcrank and

          If Dan was an honest broker he’d just admit he’d much rather have Trump than any Democrat and this is what he, in his own way, is always working toward.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 7 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @shoutingboy

          The only thing that has kept Trump in check is that there was a small group of people who disobeyed him (now all gone or fired), his own staggering incompetence, and some courts that he would change if he could get away with it. He has to go; Dems are the only vehicle for that.

          6 replies 6 retweets 26 likes
        3. Tony Lima‏ @TonyLimaPOL 7 May 2019
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @shoutingboy

          Utter nonsense. He’s been hindered by Mueller, obstruction on approving cabinet positions at all levels in the Senate, and the nasty whisper campaign from Ben Rhodes, http://et.al . Also tax cuts, deregulation and, at long last, recovery from the Obama economy. /1

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        1. Mike@1moraluniverse‏ @1MoralUniverse 7 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          @baseballcrank Incredible, watching the shitshow the GOP is running right now, and all you can come up with is “but the Democrats.” How about we agree having an authoritarian President, & complicit GOP & a capitulating, intellectually dishonest AG is horrible?

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        1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 8 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          Today in Crank "actual, current non-imaginary attacks on the Constitutional order that will pass unremarked" watch: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/justice-department-set-ask-executive-privilege-mueller-report-n1003146 …

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        1. Alwaysashy‏ @DLEG101 8 May 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @shoutingboy

          The FBI, DOJ and CIA....infamous liberal institutions

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