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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 18 Sep 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Will Wilkinson  🌐

      A supermajority, however, can do so to ensure that transient majorities cannot strip the rights of the minority. This is the point of the Bill of Rights. One of the crucial differences between liberals & progressives is the latter's contempt for the rights of minorities.https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1174361721345073153 …

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      Will Wilkinson  🌐Verified account @willwilkinson
      This piece is primarily about democracy, not gun control. My claim is that a minority can't simply declare certain questions off the table of democratic deliberation, and try to enforce that declaration with threats.
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 18 Sep 2019

      Constitutional conservatism recognizes that the majority always wins in the long run. That's not the same as saying that one majority, one time gets to make fundamental, in many cases irreversible changes to the country. Our system is built to require broad, sustained majorities.

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        2. Daniel T‏ @DanielTobias_ 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          So conservatives shouldn't be able to cut corporate taxes or regulate immigrant labor without a broad, sustained majority?

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        3. daeveningglow‏ @InlandCaGuy 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @DanielTobias_ @baseballcrank

          This is always the hole in the argument from "constitutional conservatives." That and it's not actually in the Constitution, which set up a system that clearly allows for a minority to win the presidency, the Senate and the House.

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        1. daeveningglow‏ @InlandCaGuy 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          OK, but the current discourse is not "I'm OK with a assault weapons ban once you get the President, House, Senate and Supreme Court on board." It's more along the lines that nobody ever has the right to enact that policy.

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        2. Fred Arnolfson‏ @arnolfson 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @USSpaceLawyer @baseballcrank

          Uh, not really. The referendum was specifically empowered for that end.

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        1. Brian Dell‏ @Brian_Dell 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          At issue is whether owning a semi- or full auto is more like a right to free speech to which this would be germane or like a right to drive

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        1. Gov. Patrick Bateman (D-CA)‏ @hoipcentral 18 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @awstar11

          So conservatives can't conserve anything?

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