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 @EsotericCD and
I read at the time. Will reread + AV. As you think of others, of you do, appreciated. But how about the “unprincipled” part of his argument, ie not merely very wrong, but in bad faith?
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and
I think the charges. of bad faith made against AV are just ignorant. This is what leftists fear we all believe but pretend not to, but AV has genuinely changed his mind.
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Replying to @michaelbd @yeselson and
Vermeule genuinely changed some of his beliefs when he "crossed the Tiber," so to speak. I don't say that as a denigration, but I've paid attention to his views for awhile and while there is real consistency, there is also a change that happens at that point.
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These two essays are also terrifyingly illiberal http://www.iupui.edu/~spea1/V502/Orosz/Units/Sections/u1s5/Woodrow_Wilson_Study_of_Administration_1887_jstor.pdf …https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/constitutional-government-chapter-iii-the-president-of-the-united-states/ …
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