It's not banal when it comes from the left. It's awful then, too. This is not hard.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Also the social acceptability of the legal doctrines that animate much of Congress and the judiciary.
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