1. I've known both Ben & David for many years. This is just not who David is. Even when I've disagreed with him on matters of political judgment, he's a man who tries with great sincerity both to walk with the Lord & follow the lodestars of the American Founding.https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1281811052351696902 …
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2. These past five years have been enormously frustrating times for everyone on the Right. Our friendships, principles, & personal & movement interests have often not been in sync. It's easy to turn on others who have sailed in different directions. Yet, we need each other.
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3. Yes, there are people who have been exposed in various ways. But a lot of people have also just been put to agonizing choices. I try very hard not to begrudge those who have made different choices sincerely.
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4. Some have left our tent, never to return, & are trying to burn down everyone still left in it. If you're focused on preserving the coalition, save your fire for them. Not for people trying, by ways different than yours, to save the tent.
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No criticisms on the right, I guess? Maybe you’re coalition is too desperately dependent upon people who are completely outside any remotely normative readings of even the most grotesquely egregious actions.
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Criticism is fine. Even at NR, or at RedState or the Federalist when I wrote there, we often butted heads in private & public on matters of deep importance.
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