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    1. Robert Tracinski‏Verified account @Tracinski 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd

      It's not banal when it comes from the left. It's awful then, too. This is not hard.

      2 replies 4 retweets 65 likes
    2. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Tracinski @michaelbd

      Yeah but nobody shrieking about CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW!!11!1! when it comes from that side. Which means that this version of the Right ought to get way, way more room to push against the similarly fascist Left strain of this thought.

      5 replies 4 retweets 34 likes
    3. Robert Tracinski‏Verified account @Tracinski 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @EsotericCD @michaelbd

      This is very unclear. Are you saying we should tolerate fascism from the right so it can push back against fascism from the left?

      3 replies 3 retweets 24 likes
    4. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Tracinski @michaelbd

      I'm saying that there is a definite disequilibrium on what passes for "accepted discourse" and it leans heavily towards the fascist left, and the best and really only possible way to balance that out (though this is fantasy, practically speaking) is more from the similar right.

      6 replies 8 retweets 29 likes
    5. Robert Tracinski‏Verified account @Tracinski 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @EsotericCD @michaelbd

      This makes absolutely no sense. Fight fascism with fascism is an absurdity. It's an MC Escher drawing of a thought.

      3 replies 2 retweets 33 likes
    6. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Tracinski @michaelbd

      And yet it's the only goddamn that has a chance in hell of working at this point, because insanities tend to balance one another out, and one left unanswered merely shifts the Overton Window. An ugly truth, but truth nonetheless. Leaves space for us to fight for the center.

      6 replies 4 retweets 10 likes
    7. Robert Tracinski‏Verified account @Tracinski 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @EsotericCD @michaelbd

      Jeff, I didn't think you were an idiot, and this is an idiotic answer. "Back the fascists, because they'll fight the communists for us" didn't work out for the Germans. Why would it work out for us.

      2 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
    8. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @Tracinski @michaelbd

      You don't understand: I think what Vermeule is proposing is definitely quasi-fash. But I also see it running in the Atlantic and even though I think "this is garbage" at least there's an equally extreme pushback against the psychopathy of the Millhisers of the world.

      2 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @EsotericCD @Tracinski @michaelbd

      I think we can & should critique this stuff as both inprudent & unprincipled from a conservative standpoint, without buying into the false narrative that it is in any way more bad or dangerous than what we see on a daily basis from the Left, all of which is socially acceptable.

      3 replies 6 retweets 30 likes
    10. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON*‏Verified account @EsotericCD 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @Tracinski @michaelbd

      YES. It is the "social acceptability" of the crazy takes that ride across my transom on a daily basis from the left that drives me bonkers. Don't think that it doesn't slowly shift the conversation among elites w/r/t what's contemplatible.

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @EsotericCD @Tracinski @michaelbd

      Also the social acceptability of the legal doctrines that animate much of Congress and the judiciary.

      2:26 PM - 31 Mar 2020
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