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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Replying to @baseballcrank @EsotericCD and
I have two sincere questions (have not read piece yet, just some excerpted parts): 1) What is the perceived “unprincipled” aspect of the piece? 2) This piece has been instantly controversial to liberals leftists ( not the same, but some overlaps). What is an example of an essay
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and
that (presumably also from a prominent writer/intellectual/academic) which triggered a comparative level of anger, outrage, contempt among conservatives? What is a roughly apples to apples essay comp here? Addressed to all of you.
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Replying to @yeselson @EsotericCD and
I would note this as an especially notorious example. https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/05/abandoning-defensive-crouch-liberal.html …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson and
It legendary galvanized judicial conservatives. People still talk about that Tushnet piece at reunions. People who *wield actual power*. It was the biggest mistake Tushnet ever made.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Vox
And he's a Harvard Law prof. At a (slightly) lower level, there are so damn many pieces like this onehttps://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1217079190136262658 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EsotericCD and
Is there any floor for Harvard Law, though?
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EsotericCD and
That proposal is absurd. But I do think we should probably discuss whether the gap between large and states was ever intended to grow this large. I also think we shouldn’t have territories. Either let them be independent countries or make them states.
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