You're just gonna go full D talking points now to categorically exclude all threats to the nation so long as they are not specifically Trump, eh? This is how Team Blue corrupts, and corrupts completely.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @LizMair
I have said that Trump is compromised by the Russians, that he is a threat to rule of law, that he consistently shits all over the Constitution at will, for years. You're just worried now that it looks like Trump will take the GOP down with him. Which I also said would happen.
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You call them "D talking points." I call them "the Trump record."
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair
"D talking points" is the idea that systematic assaults on our Constitution are totally fine so long as they are done for different motives & ends than Trump's. You want to ensure that no Democrat ever faces any checks whatsoever.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @LizMair
I'm sorry, is your assumption 1. That Biden will be the same menace that Trump is, and 2. that the Senate must be in the hands of the opposition or there are no checks? Did I miss the part where you argued for electing Dems in 2016 and 2018 to be a check on *this* president?
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This is really lazy argumentation, Dan. "Hey, assume that Joe Biden is *also* a sociopathic anti-constitutional authoritarian who's compromised by a foreign power. You think Chuck Schumer's gonna stop him?!" I'll take my chances, thanks.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair
So, your view is that so long as he's against our constitutional structure for ideological reasons, that's OK? Because that is the ideological commitment of the D party writ large. That is my bottom line: it's easier for Rs to get a new leader than Dems to get a new philosophy.
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Frankly, most of what I find alarming about Trump is attitudes & practices he imported from the other party. I want that stuff out of my party. Joining the other side would be endorsing it all, permanently.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @LizMair
You are desperately trying to shoehorn Joe Biden - a moderate you've seen in politics for 40 years - into a threat to the Constitution, because you want to rationalize supporting an *actual* threat to the Constitution - a threat is now far more institutionalized in the GOP.
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The Republicans are now far more of a threat to constitutional order than the Democrats. They've *proven* it. I'll throw the dice on Biden and the Dems over this anti-constitutional, revanchist cult.
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Well, so long as your concept of the constititutional order includes neither separation of powers, nor the Bill of Rights, nor the primacy of the written Constitution, nor the sovereignty of the elected & accountable branches.
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