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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 Sep 2019

      There are ultimately two sources of legitimate political power: up from the governed, or down from God. The latter is of course preferable in theory, but long experience has taught us not to trust earthly interpreters of God's will with secular power. So we settle for the former.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2019

      If we can't trust an unrepresentative elite that explicitly seeks to divine the will of God, even less so can we trust one that takes the same approach but leaves out God, substituting "fundamental human rights" or "fairness" or "justice" or "equality." All fine things, but...

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2019

      ...once we accept that legitimate power is flowing up from the governed, not down from God, we must also ultimately trust the governed with deciding what is a fundamental right, what is fair or equal or just. Restraints on the majority aim not to deny that power but to guide it.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2019

      The Founding Fathers believed in the necessity of elite leadership, elite draftsmanship. But they ultimately submitted their work to be ratified by the governed. The institutions they built have speed bumps & sobriety checkpoints, but the people still have the wheel.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2019

      It is true, as the Framers warned us, that a democracy cannot long survive a corrupted and unvirtuous people. But no other system can, either. A corrupt people produces bad kings, bad priests, bad judges, bad philosophers, and bad soldiers.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 20 Sep 2019

      If classical liberalism is doomed, it is doomed because all things human are doomed. The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

      7:53 AM - 20 Sep 2019
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        1. Daniel T‏ @DanielTobias_ 20 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The fault is with the Republican party. Majority of Americans disapprove of the corrupt reality television actor in the White House.

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        1. Ben Hollandsworth‏ @BenHOLLA 20 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          This is all really nice and pretty. Any comment on the whistleblower story?

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        2. Karen A. Virus‏ @TragicPenName 20 Sep 2019
          Replying to @MilitaryRosary @baseballcrank

          You've said it many times--and been wrong every one of them. A fetus is not a person. Sorry.

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        2. Karen A. Virus‏ @TragicPenName 20 Sep 2019
          Replying to @MilitaryRosary @baseballcrank

          How can you cite religious dogma (about abortion) with one breath and denounce the entire Gospel of St Matthew with the next? You are a profoundly dishonest or stupid person. Or both, I guess.

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        1. DrM  🇺🇸‏ @DrMagnolias 20 Sep 2019
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          Bravo!

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        1. Impeachments* Are Forever‏ @OK_Dumbass 20 Sep 2019
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          That may be so, but thanks to a deluded minority of ourselves, that doom seems to be impending well ahead of schedule:https://news.gallup.com/poll/266906/trump-job-approval-ties-party-polarization-record.aspx …

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        1. Mark Noonan‏ @Mark_E_Noonan 20 Sep 2019
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          It is doomed because it rejects the fact that the fault is, indeed, in our selves. Only a deeply religious people can be fit for self rule: a people, that is, who understand how bad people can be and so voluntarily refuses certain things and severely sanctions transgression.

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