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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 20 Aug 2019

      1. You could spend all day on the slanted & misleading history in this @jbouie column why Mitch McConnell is...the new John C. Calhoun? To start with, search the column for mention of Harry Reid, Robert Byrd, or Lyndon Johnson. You won't find them.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/republicans-racism-african-americans.html …

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      2. Bouie also begins & ends his history of gerrymandering with Republicans in the past decade, ignoring the vast history of Democrat gerrymanders. In 2009, Democrats had 15 more House seats than their share of the popular vote - without which Obamacare doesn't pass.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      3. Bouie's history of Walker-era Wisconsin power struggles ignores the unprecedented Democrat efforts to recall Walker, have the legislative minority flee the state, surround the capitol with angry mobs, & sic investigators on conservative donors.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      4. This is aside from the oddity of including, in a series on black Americans, a jeremiad against any political structure that defends the rights of the minority. I wonder if America has ever had minorities oppressed by the majority.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      5. @johnddavidson also notes that Calhounist views of the American Founding have more in common with today's progressivism & the 1619 Project than they do with modern conservatism https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/ghost-john-c-calhoun-haunts-todays-american-left/ … &https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/confederacy-still-lingers-within-progressivism-birthed/ …

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      6. Then there is Bouie's history of Reaganism, which consists entirely of a quote about the 1991 David Duke campaign that is so hilariously ahistorical regarding the environment of 1980 & 1984, it's hard to believe anyone who lived through that era wouldn't laugh at it.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

      7. Bouie's view that Bill Buckley only rethought his view on civil rights "when key civil rights questions had been settled by law" also has the timeline of Buckley's evolution wrong, unless Bouie thinks these things had been settled by the mid-60shttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/13/william-f-buckley-civil-rights-215129 …

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          8. I'm not sure how you write this paragraph without pulling a hamstring.pic.twitter.com/aecf8mOtis

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          9. Also, in ascribing Calhounism as the source of anti-majoritarianism in American politics, Bouie ignores the role of "living constitution" judges & the administrative state, both of which derive from the anti-majoritarian theories of white supremacist Woodrow Wilson.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          10. Now, Calhoun began with a germ of truth: the American system runs on multiple tracks - the president, Senate, House, & states each answer to separate electorates. Those distinct majorities can each, within limits, obstruct the others. But that's not why Calhoun's wrong.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          11. The federal system, including the provision of a written & amendable constitution, ultimately allows large or lasting majorities to override all opposition. Calhoun clung to a pre-1787, anti-originalist view that the concurrent systems had an absolute veto.

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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          12. To belabor the obvious, Calhoun was also bad on the merits - he also turned away from the Founders' view of slavery & embraced it as a positive good.

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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          13. Antebellum South Carolina was also uniquely bad. Bouie describes it as "the paradigmatic slave state" but it was more the extreme example. From 1828-60 it was the only state that held no popular vote for POTUS. Its state government was likewise out of step w/even the South.

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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Aug 2019

          14. Anyway, there are deeper issues w/transporting Calhounism to the modern GOP while totally whitewashing the entire history of the Democratic Party outside the South & the modern progressive posture towards popular sovereignty & constitutional government, but you get the idea.

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        1. Theo Littleton‏ @CptnJustc 20 Aug 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @jbouie

          I mean, depending a little on what you mean by “key” and “settled”, but… kinda, yeah?

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        1. Andy Dildô‏ @Echo_VIII 20 Aug 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @jbouie

          Brown v Board was in 54. King was dead by 68. Buckley didn't lead or even move with the charge he resisted it until the optics got uncomfortable

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