I’ve been thinking a lot about this issue, stemming from this, @ezraklein’s NYT op-ed on the subject, and Bobby Jindal’s piece today in The Federalist.
I’m workshopping the thought, but there seems to be a sense of expected responsiveness placed upon Democrats (but not the GOP.)https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/1222489936974229509 …
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The entire origin of the debate is the premise that Republicans have a moral obligation to vote Democratic; the contrary premise would never even be admitted to a debate. So the question is whether the obligation lies 100% on Republicans, or even a little on Democrats.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @ezraklein
I link to an argument to the contrary in the following tweet.
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Where? So far as I can see, neither Jindal nor Ezra argues that Democratic voters has a moral obligation to vote Republican.
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Jindal argues that Democrats should “normalize” towards his viewpoints to adequately fight Trump. That’s placing responsibility of being “normal” or “sane” on Democrats. The “all they had to do was be sane” meme is all dependent on a specific reading of that idea.
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The other disconnect with Jindal's thesis there is that D's do not at all share his consensus that this is the optimal way to defeat Trump electorally. There's a good case Jindal is right on the broader point, but the whole 2020 primary is an argument about exactly that issue
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That's a separate argument, and a fair debate.
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