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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 15 Sep 2020

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Adam Ozimek

      I think it's a combination of his age, his malleability, the protests, his proposals, recent history of how quickly the Overton Window shifts within Democratic party officialdom, & an understanding of how much power is exercised at the sub-presidential level.https://twitter.com/ModeledBehavior/status/1305886107817709568 …

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      Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior
      How much of the perception (among certain groups) that Biden is letting the far left drive is due to the fairly unrelated issue of protests? How much is due to his specific policy proposals? @baseballcrank @MichaelRStrain
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 15 Sep 2020

      Biden's age is an enormous factor. I'd have more faith that he would hold the line against his own base if this was the Joe Biden of, say, 1994. Very old men tend to lose their moral courage. It takes persistent energy to stand against the tide.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 15 Sep 2020

          French kings Charles X (age 73) & Louis-Philippe (75) lost the spine to stand up to the Parisian mob. In the Sepoy Mutiny, the last Mughal, Bahadur Shah Zafar (82), was swept along w/the mob. Hindenburg (86) & Petain (84) got rolled by Hitler. FDR, sapped by illness, at Yalta.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 15 Sep 2020

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Sean Gallagher

          To an extent. Reagan had some great moments in his 2d term, & 2d terms are often rough. But he did get less hands-on (never a strength of his). And Biden would be older entering office than Reagan was leaving office.https://twitter.com/SeanGIndy/status/1305939624708239362 …

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          Sean Gallagher @SeanGIndy
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          Although certainly a far less extreme example than those you provide, could you say that the Iran-Contra scandal was an example of this as Reagan was into his late 70s in his second term?
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        1. Ben Hollandsworth‏ @BenHOLLA 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Who, besides Romney - has stood in the way of trumps impulses?

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        2. Patrick Ortiz‏ @PettrucioOrtiz 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Ardaingeal_Cap @baseballcrank

          John McCain was offered the chance to be released from an NVA prison as part of a communist propaganda plan. He declined to be released until he and all his men would be freed in a prisoner exchange. During that time he was tortured and lost the ability to raise his arms.

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        2. Adam Bonin‏ @adambonin 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          What's your evidence on that? Did Reagan become more malleable? Or in the Senate, did Thurmond, Hatch, or Stevens? Or on my side, did Kennedy go squish? Has Leahy? It's a theory, but I don't think the facts bear it out.

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        1. Proudly Unaffiliated‏ @ProudlyUnaffil1 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The Bernie-Biden task force is a factor for me personally. Presumably this is his policy, unless he secretly plans an about-face (and enragement of the Bernie Bros) post-election.

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        2. Patrick Ortiz‏ @PettrucioOrtiz 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          I think this is the more persuasive version of the argument that Biden will cede to the far left, but it’s also worth noting this works in reverse— young politicians with careers ahead of them want to seem cool.

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        3. Patrick Ortiz‏ @PettrucioOrtiz 15 Sep 2020
          Replying to @PettrucioOrtiz @baseballcrank

          And then I’m not sure how useful this is as a comparative tool when looking at the candidates, for whatever that’s worth. Trump is very willing to attack his own party, but I can’t think of too many examples of him taking a stand *for* something against radicals in his own party.

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