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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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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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair
1. Be honest. Biden is a liberal, not a moderate. He's not Joe Manchin. 2. Biden is unlikely to remain in control long. He's ancient & easily bullied. 3. Biden's Senate record has long been about shifting the courts away from the Constitution by any available means.
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1. Yeah, I've heard that one. He's not Joe Manchin. But he'll do. 2. You have an obviously *deeply* emotionally disturbed man in office right now. 3. The GOP courts project scares me more than the Democrats. 4. I prefer a party not compromised by foreign powers.
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom @LizMair
Well, 3 is all the marbles. You want courts that will bend everything to left-leaning policy ends, that's what you get. Just don't pretend it's the rule of law or the American system.
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Judicial activists are judicial activists, better that they reflect public opinion if you don't want bloody uprisings
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The GOP is no different about the courts than the Democrats. Just more ruthless and theocratic.
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This is the legal nihilism progressives have preached forever. You ought to know better. The Constitution actually says things, which were ratified by the people. Written law has meaning. You're now embracing the rejection of that as a first principle.
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And I don't believe that the current GOP gives a rat's ass about that meaning. They certainly don't care if the one man responsible to "take care that the laws are faithfully executed" cares about that meaning, so you can get right off that high horse, counselor. /1
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As I said to Hewitt during the election, I'm not willing to trade away the rest of the Constitution just to see if I can get the outcome I want on some case. That's not a win: that's tearing up the Constitution to get things I happen to like. No, thank you. Out. All of them. /2x
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