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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 10 Dec 2019

      The harshness of the Bulwark's coverage of Nikki Haley is emblematic of the publication's institutional inability to envision any future Republican coalition that it does not oppose.https://thebulwark.com/nikki-haley-has-a-superpower/ …

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    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Dec 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Or - and just stay with me here - she's been bitten by the Trump zombies and is now a shambling MAGA head like the rest of them.

      22 replies 11 retweets 245 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      I don't envy Republican politicians tasked with remaining viable to the party's current & potential future voters throughout this experience, but there is simply no possible future coalition that throws out everyone who is not a bitter-end opponent of Trump.

      20 replies 10 retweets 128 likes
    4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Dec 2019
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      That's why I think the party is dead.

      11 replies 4 retweets 140 likes
    5. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Dec 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

      And I say that not as a fan of post-Communist purity panels, but because Haley, among others, is showing that there's no half-way point. The days of "balls and strikes" are long over. Not snarking: Trump forces all-in or all-out decisions. The GOP is all-in. Ergo....

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom

      If you start, as I do, with the proposition that the nation's people need & want an alternative to the Democrats, I don't see how you make that happen by applying purity tests that we didn't apply after Nixon or Harding, or in the 1850s or 1870s.

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        2. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Dan, I think you’re being way too overly solicitous to Haley. She could just be silent on political matters. Some would drag her. But she’s not even doing that. She’s actively out there w/pro-Trump nonsense. That’s a sign of having 0 character.

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        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @brianros1 @baseballcrank

          And I agree with Dan that America needs a center-right alternative. But the current GOP needs to learn the price of betraying the country. If that means the Dems run the country for a while, so be it. This can't ever be allowed to happen again, and voting against them is the way.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Hoping the institutional GOP is wiped out and younger conservatives take those spots or create a new party. (Or create a centrist party splintering from the Dems). As Jimmy Malone says: “If you're afraid of getting a rotten apple, don't go to the barrel. Get it off the tree.”

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom

          But the "younger conservatives" who won't be like Trump in office *are* people like Haley, Rubio, Cruz, Walker, Sasse, et al - the Gen X/Tea Party crowd. You burn that cadre down, you don't get Abe Lincoln, you get Charlie Kirk.

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        1. Goodgrief9911‏ @Goodgrief9911 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          The Bulwark staff is convinced there is enough time to solidify the base and ignore the 47% for a successful Jub! roll out in '24.

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        1. Magister Joe‏ @joeeule 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Haley is just doing what politicians the world over do, stay relevant & in the game. Politicians - of all stripes - are incredibly malleable & change w/ circumstances & respond to market forces - at least those who want to get elected. I'm not saying it's ideal, but it's reality.

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        1. Craig Nicholas‏ @ThePathological 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          This is simple. Just vote for non-Democrats who didn't subordinate their principles, integrity, or judgment to Trump

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        2. Tom Morrissey‏ @tom_steely 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Watergate ultimately gave us Reagan, remember, and even Ford brought in a whole new, younger generation of leadership, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al.

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        3. Cold War Nostalgic‏ @Malabar_Bucolic 10 Dec 2019
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          Apples to engine blocks.

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        1. Chris L‏ @soylentdieter 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          If you say that having a center right alternative to the Democrats requires my support of any of the existing @GOP appeasers of Trump, there is no alternative to satisfy my vote. I expect politicians to disappoint me, but this has gone too far and cannot be forgiven.

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