I'm not arguing against all criticism of one's friends; I've never written anywhere that took that stance. But choices of tone & emphasis & narrative are pretty easy to detect in opinion writing; who is treated as a friend in need of correction, who a foe.https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1204503787362234370 …
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The problem with being Against Trump as your only organizing principle, without any other defined end state or any sense of who you want to help you reach that end state, is that Trump won't be with us forever. We'll still need to know what we believe & where we're aiming to go.
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I keep coming back to Lincoln, who had to navigate an era when the stakes were high, the coalitions up for grabs, & the choices of how to advance one's principles, what compromises to make, & who to welcome in the tent were all fraught. He never lost his realism or his goals.
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I like both principles & purity but am realistic about their presence on the list of ingredients for politicians. https://twitter.com/_Drew_McCoy_/status/1204516439681650688 …
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My own view of intra-party tests: on an ongoing basis, you isolate the worst people in the herd - whether crooks, grifters, squishes, bigots, incompetents - & purge them. But you don't burn down the tent. Regular culling of the worst people=incentive to not be the worst.
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Consider Lincoln: he stayed with the Whigs almost to the end, until the Republicans were a viable replacement. He didn't quit the party when it elected Taylor (even though Lincoln opposed the Mexican War) or when Fillmore pushed through the Compromise of 1850.
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Lincoln never went with the purist Free Soilers. He welcomed ex-Know Nothings & machine politicians. He ran with a slave-owning Democrat as his VP. He made common cause with the Tsar when it helped the Union.
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Your viewpoint doesn't seem to allow for the possibility that all available coalitions may be morally indefensible. If the GOP remains Trumpified, it deserves to be cast out into the wilderness. You have to draw the line somewhere, and if this isn't it, where is it?
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On Nikki Haley, you make it sound like the options are (a) she gets a Bill Kristol tattoo and goes full anti-Trump or (b) she becomes a MAGA zombie. She could also (c) keep her head down and not spout the most odious MAGA BS. She chose not to. She should pay a political price.
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how you can argue, with a straight face, that the GOP is guided by any principle other than pleasing Trump. Free Markets, low taxes, freedom of choice, lowering deficits - those were principles. Justin Amash stands for that. He opposed Trump. He’s no longer in the party.
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You’re so fixated on how bad Dems are you continuously give a pass to the principles of your own party being gutted before your eyes. Donald Trump stands mostly opposed to all of those principles. And the party isn’t even fighting him to get them back.
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