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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      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?

      3 replies 5 retweets 41 likes
    3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @LizMair

      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.

      2 replies 6 retweets 47 likes
    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
      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.

      7 replies 1 retweet 14 likes
    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @LizMair

      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.

      8 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      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.

      3 replies 3 retweets 52 likes
    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @LizMair

      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 24 likes
    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    9. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @LizMair

      But enough about the Republicans.

      3 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @LizMair

      Dan, you can trying this scare-mongering on someone else. We're both too old for this. You have a proven record of pure contempt for the Constitution, from Stone to Russia to even things now forgotten like the ATT merger. You're okay with it all. I'm not.

      1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair

      OK, now you are just making stuff up. I favored the Stone prosecution & opposed the commutation; I just thought a 9-year sentence was bonkers. And when did I write anything about the AT&T merger?

      5:04 PM - 13 Jul 2020
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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 13 Jul 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @LizMair

          I'm not talking about you, I'm reminding you that the GOP has been enabling years of utterly anti-constitutional behavior. You're asking me to fear Biden, as though somehow he'd be worse. The GOP is not only anti-constitutional, it's *banana republic level* anti-constitutional.

          2 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Jul 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair

          When one writes "you have a proven record," it is customarily meant to talk about the person you're addressing.

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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