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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 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

      This is another way of saying you do not actually believe in expertise. Be better, Tom. You were not always like this.

      3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel @keithedwards

      I have always objected to the politicization of expertise. I even wrote about it in a book. I have always respected your intelligence and writing, Dan, but when it comes to a the sparkling prize of a SCOTUS nom, I do not trust your political motives. Not one nanometer.

      3 replies 0 retweets 26 likes
    3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and

      Also, remember that you changed the subject from "Ernst is making up a principle" to "but this thing has happened in history." You disingenuously changed the terms of debate from her normative implications to your shrug that "it happens." To take a phrase: Be better, Dan.

      2 replies 0 retweets 37 likes
    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

      When did she cite a principle? She cited a practice. The practice is supported in history. You are just flailing here because feelings. You have not a shred of fact or learning on your side.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel @keithedwards

      We disagree about what we saw her do. You think she was just stating history. I think she was making an excuse based on inventing a principle.

      1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
    6. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and

      And I think if it comes to getting a judge, you'd figure out how to undo all that, reverse your earlier writing, and then explain how a new reading of history convinced you that it's okay to do it. That's my reading of your writing. It's the view of one reader, Dan.

      2 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

      This is the gateway to conspiracy-theory thinking. It's the sort of thing I get from Breitbartistan.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel @keithedwards

      You think one reader criticism saying "I find your principles to be too flexible and I believe you are saying things in the name of political expediency" is the equivalent of a "gateway to conspiracy thinking?" That's the sort of thing you hear from Trump himself.

      3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

      One reader saying crazy things reflects on that one reader.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel @keithedwards

      I didn't realize that distrusting your politics as a writer was a sign of insanity, but okay, good safety tip.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Jul 2020
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

      We've established that you're speaking on two subjects - the history of SCOTUS nominations & my motivations & state of mind - on which I have far more information than you. Yet, you do not surrender any certainty in the face of superior knowledge & expertise. Sad!

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        1. Libertari-ish‏ @Libersomethin 22 Jul 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom and

          Could we instead ask "would a lame duck Senate hurrying through a confirmation for a lame duck president in 2020 reflect the will of the people?"

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom 22 Jul 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @daveweigel @keithedwards

          1. You're still changing the subject. I wasn't speaking on SCOTUS history, but on what I think Ernst was trying to do: Invent an ass-covering principle. 2. I infer your intentions as your reader and interlocutor. 3. This convo does nothing to convince me that I am wrong about (2)

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Jul 2020
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @daveweigel @keithedwards

          This is exactly what the Deep State paranoiacs do: you start by assuming Ernst must be lying, therefore when she cites a distinction grounded in historical fact, you assume it's a smoke screen for THE REAL PLOT because whatever she's saying must be a HOAX,

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