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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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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Yeah, he also put some journalists in jail... Trump may want to consider same.
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We don’t have a single elected official with 50% of Lincoln’s brains.
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We have smart people, but we definitely do not have a Lincoln.
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Yeah, but he was in it for the Constitution. Can you honestly say that about more than a handful of GOP pols?
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