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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 2 Aug 2020

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      Or rather, conservatives believe, deep down, that the *possibility* of electoral losses is legitimate, & the Left does not. It is not a coincidence that the original democratic transfer of power was away from a party of the Right (the Federalists). https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1289971635311669248 …

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 2 Aug 2020

      The whole idea of a constitutional democratic republic is that sometimes you lose elections, & then you get to convince the voters to give you back the same powers they just gave to the other guy.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 2 Aug 2020

      The constitutional methodology of progressivism assumes that no electoral loss can legitimately transfer the same powers that a prior victory delivered; each win is supposed to be permanent "progress" reducing the number of questions left undecided to the voters.

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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 2 Aug 2020

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          The most egregious example of refusing to accept a Republican president.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1290078708464664577 …

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          But see the Election of 1860 (and the 600,000 souls who perished in the Civil War that it precipitated). https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1289971635311669248 …
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        1. CTIronman‏ @CTIronman 2 Aug 2020
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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine?wprov=sfti1 … “what’s ours is ours; what’s yours is negotiable”

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        1. CATOtheNEITHER‏ @othe_cat 2 Aug 2020
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          I think the "methodology" of progressivism assumes far too much of other political actors, meaning that once a path is chosen, opposition will work toward the best possible outcome inside that prescribed legislative framework. Instead, we often get bad-faith and sandbagging.

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        1. Peter‏ @shadowfuzz 2 Aug 2020
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          https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/31/trump-rigged-election-campaign-strategy-388884 …

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        2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 2 Aug 2020
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          Ah. And that must be why the right does everything it can to limit the voting cohort from the start of democratic polities going forward. And the left—from non property holding white men to women to non white people—has sought to expand the right to vote.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 2 Aug 2020
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          One, non sequitur re accepting outcomes. Two, expanding the electorate is what you do when you don't accept the current electorate. Three, who won the 1868, 1920, 1968, & 1972 elections?

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        1. ben‏ @taketothesea 2 Aug 2020
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          This might be the dumbest thing I’ve heard in months.

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        1. ben‏ @taketothesea 2 Aug 2020
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          So what you’re saying here is that because progressives have a progressive agenda, they believe it to be impossible to lose elections and therefore any election they lose is deemed illegitimate? Seriously, are you high? Is this really your take?

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