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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 27 Jul 2019

      If you're concerned about investigations, it's more relevant that Elijah Cummings devoted the bulk of all his energies in office from 2011-16 as a vocal opponent of investigations & oversight of the president.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      On the other hand, if you're actually concerned about how Baltimore is governed, the trail of corruption & government malfeasance in a one-party Democrat city is staggering, & it would do Democrats good to reflect on why that is rather than just blaming Trump for noticing.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      A sampling of why Democrats would be ill-advised to defend their governance of Baltimore https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/politics/mayor-baltimore-resigns-book-scandal/index.html … https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-police-commissioner-charged-with-failing-to-file-taxes/2018/05/10/42e55566-5488-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.de2fb6376bc3 … https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/12/baltimore-mayor-election-stephanie-rawlings-blake-freddie-gray … https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.ci.dixon03feb03-story.html … https://nypost.com/2019/07/22/baltimores-new-deputy-police-commissioner-gets-mugged-at-gunpoint/ … https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/charity-run-by-wife-of-elijah-cummings-incurs-new-ethics-complaint … https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/03/07/baltimore-police-department-disbands-plainclothes-unit-after-racketeering-indictment …

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Stephen L. Miller

      Exactly. Look, Trump is responsible for Trump, & is an expert at distracting from that. There is also a reason why guys like Cummings also don't want anyone looking to hard at their own record or that of the political organization they come from. Easier to rant about Russia.https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1155127089726742529 …

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      Stephen L. MillerVerified account @redsteeze
      Replying to @baseballcrank
      We can talk about the all problems with these cities right up until the point of discussing who has run them for decades. That's when the discussion ends.
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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

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      The longstanding pattern is that corruption flourishes best when a single party controls an area - especially one with lots of poor & working-class voters - & cements that control by racial/ethnic/cultural appeals, so the voters will put up w/anything before changing sides. https://twitter.com/DrunkenPromises/status/1155128819575119874 …

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      That dynamic is not unique to one party, one race, or one ethnicity, but historically it's much more likely to flourish in the kinds of urban enclaves that Democrats have dominated since the 1830s.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      1 of the reasons for conservatives to dislike Trump: he reeks of the same political style Dems have deployed to run those urban machines as a grift on the backs of a variety of racial & ethnic & immigrant groups for nearly two centuries, playing to their resentments & tribalism.

      12 replies 8 retweets 46 likes
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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      1 of the reasons Trump's fans love him: they see the immune-to-everything partisan hammerlock that Cummings & the Baltimore Dems & other urban machines have on their voters, & they want one of their own who fights the same way.

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      The reason 'whataboutism' comes up so much with Trump is that Trump as a politician is practically the living embodiment of whataboutism. He's half a century of pent-up Republican frustration at things Republicans saw Democrats get away with: "none of that matters? Here. Enjoy."

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      The big internal fight among Republicans on this style of politics is between people who think that what works for Democrats is simply "what works" & those of us who think, in the long run, voters come to Republicans for something *different* from what they seek from Democrats.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      All of which comes back to my previous thread on how Republicans have traditionally differed from Democrats in philosophy, structure, & appealhttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1152217997781676032 …

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      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      Also, the Whigs couldn't apply their founding principles to new circumstances because the Whigs didn't have any founding principles. There were principled Whigs and a Whig agenda, but there was no agreed set of Whig principles. eg, the party's embarrassed incoherence on slavery. https://twitter.com/NateBell4AR/status/1152217017405100033 …
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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Elijah E. Cummings

          Look, I have no illusions about the fact that positions on oversight in the House, in particular, have been at least 99% pure partisanship on both sides for as long as I've been alive. Nobody who lived through 2011-16 should take this Tweet seriously;https://twitter.com/RepCummings/status/1155132215208161281 …

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          Elijah E. CummingsVerified account @RepCummings
          Mr. President, I go home to my district daily. Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors. It is my constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. But, it is my moral duty to fight for my constituents.
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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Varad Mehta

          Agreed. Cites in this thread.https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1155147308104896513 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Varad Mehta @varadmehta
          You get the idea. Execrate Trump's tweets all you want. Don't excuse Baltimore to do it.
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        1. Mandy  ✝ ☕‏ @SpringSteps 27 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          You said a lot but not much makes sense. Democrats are neglecting their cities because they are more concerned with stirring hate against Trump. This President is pointing it out, you might not appreciate his style but no one else is pointing out the situation in Baltimore.

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        1. M.R.‏ @ViennaCovfefe 27 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          In general citities are ofc also way more complex (not harder per se but complex) to govern than rural regions and the GOP has stopped even competing and in praxis calls urban Americans the equivalent of deplorable....without any need to apologize.

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        1. Scottie‏ @ix_sir 27 Jul 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          No defense of racism which references the Whigs could be in bad faith.

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