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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 17 Jun 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Julian Zelizer

      I haven't decided who I'm voting for in 2020 & won't until after the primaries, but it won't be any of the 24 Democrats. Calls like this are a 1-way street. Liberal/progressive pundits are never asked to do the same. Democratic candidates are never asked to offer us anything.https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1140222278547980288 …

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      Julian ZelizerVerified account @julianzelizer
      I’m curious about how many of the prominent conservatives who have been continually tweet raging about @realDonaldTrump are prepared to call on fellow Republicans to support, endorse, and vote for the Democratic nominee in 2020.
      73 replies 69 retweets 307 likes
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 17 Jun 2019

      To the contrary, what many of the Democrats in the race & their cheerleaders in the commentariat are promising is that they'll take a defeat of Trump as license for permanent structural change in their favor. No thanks.

      9 replies 21 retweets 97 likes
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 17 Jun 2019

      The wrongest take on Trump is that he represents an existential threat to our system by overreaching the powers & norms of his office. The greatest existential threat is what the reaction to Trump will empower progressives to do to our system.

      17 replies 22 retweets 125 likes
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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 17 Jun 2019

      The second greatest threat posed by Trump - the one that gives me most pause about supporting his re-election - is that his weakness in commanding the loyalty & obedience that the executive branch normally gives a president could prove ruinous in an international crisis.

      7 replies 6 retweets 49 likes
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    5. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Several problems here. Trumps lack of “command” is tied is manifest unfitness for office—his mental instability, his encompassing ignorance, his cruelty, his corruption. All of those are tied to norm violation—not that they are redolent of fascism, but that they inure the polity

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      to his grotesqueness. But: *none * of this will enable progressive politics, but just standard HOP politics which Trunp, in his distracted laziness, just subcontracted to crony capitalists and libertarian crackpots. You all can’t figure out why Americans want health care—that’s

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      just typical GOzp under any president. Romney tried to save you from yourselves when he was governor of MA, but “freedom” triumphed. And yeah, that’s not popular.

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    8. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      Do bottom mount: Trump triggers visceral loathing. He’s a disgusting human being, lacking basic empathy and appropriate behavior (He’s never photographed with his grandchildren! He couldn’t even function at the Normandy cemetery!) He’s mevtskky ill. Not good! But also not fascist

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    9. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

      nor the provocation for significant changes in the US political economy. President Cruz or Bush or Rubio would have provoked that too.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 17 Jun 2019
      Replying to @yeselson

      I agree that progressives would have sought the same responses in the absence of Trump. But I think Trump makes it easier to sell that. Which is a major reason why he's so ultimately destructive.

      1:15 PM - 17 Jun 2019
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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Agree that Trump generates intense negative partisanship because he is so repulsive and people have now seen that in him as president, not merely as a candidate. But also Trump ‘sxbstivusm and raced resentment—border policy, Colin Kapernick—galvanizes Dem base in a way that a

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        3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 17 Jun 2019
          Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank

          Prez Jeb Bush or Rubio would not have. In that sense, he is different than a typical R prez (in regulatory policy, judicial nomination, no.) Trade, also a difference, is a wildcard.

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