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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

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tim Miller

      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’m certainly guilty on the accusation of pessimism for future. And I dont agree with everything Shay wrote. But the implication here that writers should pull their punches on Haley when she screws up in the hopes that they might be aligned in the future is pretty hacky. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1204491926600404993 …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      Opinion advocacy that isn't just horserace punditry should, as a general rule, have a point of view, a desired end state. Sometimes you can be frank that your end state is infeasible (libertarians are sometimes like this). Readers may have to infer it if you won't say it.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      If your desired end state is a set of policies & institutions & you envision obtaining that without anything resembling a realistic coalition, then your advocacy really isn't offering the reader anything they can apply as an informed citizen.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      The advantage of having fixed principles, of course, is that you can always argue in that direction, even if you accept falling short. But that also required knowing what those principles *are* & having some realistic idea of how they interact with the coalitions available.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      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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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      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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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

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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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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      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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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      Pour encourager les autres.

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      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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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 10 Dec 2019

      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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        1. John Q A‏ @JohnQAdams11 10 Dec 2019
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          Well, the third was a huge mistake.

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        1. CatrionaMDW‏ @CatrionaMDW 10 Dec 2019
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          I’d say Nikki Haley defending her record working with @realDonaldTrump is a far cry from Lincoln running with a slaveholder in 1864. Trump has done a lot of good things.

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        2. Kristofer Harrison‏ @ToferH 10 Dec 2019
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          Because he was purist pro-Union.

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        3. Kristofer Harrison‏ @ToferH 10 Dec 2019
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          PS—Lincoln is a bad analogy. He dealt with slavery and 600k dead Americans. Here, we’re talking about Trump appropriating GOP careerists to make the world’s most lengthy Mountain Dew commercial.

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