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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank
I agree. And frankly I think it’s going to take a decade in the wilderness to come back to something sane. This has been building for a long time & the only way to fix it is to let people see that their choice is losing.
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Except people said that in 1974, and six years later we had Reagan.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @brianros1
This isn’t in the same universe as Nixon, and the GOP has pissed away the chance to be the party that told Nixon the truth in 1974.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank
Yeah. Nixon was an ethically flawed guy but he wasn’t an authoritarian and for all his encouragement of white backlash, he was nowhere near Trump on that metric either.
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