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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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    6. 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.

      11 replies 4 retweets 49 likes
    7. 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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      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. CTIronman‏ @CTIronman 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Ain’t no one gonna hang out in the wilderness for decades waiting for a generation of post-Trump politicoshttps://images.app.goo.gl/XnhajG48EgNUQ7Ur9 …

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        1. Leo Kessler‏ @BlockadeLeo 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Considering those people all trip over themselves to speak at Charlie Kirk's events, who cares?

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

          Then I wish the Dems a long and wise reign, because at this point Charlie Kirk and Ted Cruz are functionally indistinguishable to me. The GOP in that case will live on as a crackpot regional party representing empty land in the Senate.

          10 replies 7 retweets 89 likes
        3. Supply Side Gaslighting‏ @82_and_0 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

          Terrifying admission by Dan

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

          You're saying someone rejecting Haley, Rubio, etc. over Trump is instead going to vote for Kirk?

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        2. Tim Lewis‏ @TimLewis33 11 Dec 2019
          Replying to @AlexBorgia4 @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Bullshit.

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        1. Jayce‏ @jasonrhd 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          I’ve got shocking news from several years ago. There is no daylight at all between Charlie Kirk and Ted Cruz.

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        1. Tim Hamilton‏ @TSHamiltonAstro 10 Dec 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom

          Amen. And as a conservative, why would I want a "centrist" alternative to the Democrats? I want a *conservative* alternative that isn't whatever Trump says it is this week. It will have to include Trump supporters, because it would be about principles, not personalities.

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