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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. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      Will Wilkinson  🌐 Retweeted b-boy bouiebaisse

      Looks like @ryanlcooper wrote the piece I was planning to write. Anyway, it's crazy how deeply Americans have confused "the rule of law" with a form of strong judicial review that is relatively rare and an unconstitutional fabrication of a self-aggrandizing judiciary.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1308396535458279425 …

      Will Wilkinson  🌐 added,

      b-boy bouiebaisseVerified account @jbouie
      good piece from @ryanlcooper on how one response to conservative judicial activism is just to ignore it. https://theweek.com/articles/938865/democrats-have-better-option-than-court-packing …
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      14 replies 86 retweets 330 likes
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    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      A good system that works is to allow the elected branches of government pass legislation that most citizens want with little fear of a veto by an unelected panel of oracles dominated by representatives of minority and corporate interests. Sounds crazy, I know.

      10 replies 78 retweets 289 likes
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    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      Conservatives will try to persuade you that transitioning toward normal representative democracy means descending into authoritarian chaos. It doesn't. It means ascending to the possibility of approaching the realization our basic ideals of liberty and equality.

      5 replies 36 retweets 156 likes
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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      But the GOP as currently constituted represents a shrinking minority of the population (including rent-gobbling corporate fatcats). So it gets its panties in a raging twist if you deign to question the anti-majoritarian mechanisms that allow them to trample over the majority.

      5 replies 35 retweets 161 likes
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    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      There's a strong motive there to cast majoritarian democracy as inconsistent with the "the rule of law" when majorities seem likely to produce law against the minority's interests. Preservation of the minority's supremacy is treated as a condition for the system's legitimacy.

      1 reply 18 retweets 114 likes
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    6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 22 Sep 2020

      We get tons of convoluted "republic not a democracy" arguments and fancy scholastic footwork arguing that it's good and right that the minority party should enjoy huge structural advantages, but it's all sophism more or less wittingly about maintaining unequal factional power.

      7 replies 31 retweets 164 likes
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    7. Joe Hammon‏ @joehammon 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @willwilkinson

      Joe Hammon Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      The best is when they spout those arguments at the same time they say things like "The American people elected a Republican Senate in the last election."https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1307751620462157834?s=20 …

      Joe Hammon added,

      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      Replying to @waxmanj
      "The American people elected a Republican Senate in the last election."
      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @joehammon @willwilkinson

      It's amazing how many people are angry that I answered a question about what a letter said, by quoting the letter.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Joe Hammon‏ @joehammon 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank @willwilkinson

      Joe Hammon Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      Actually the objectionable thing you said was here, which seemed to be in defense of the statement you quoted. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1307789169809330178?s=20 … Or did you mean something else?

      Joe Hammon added,

      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      You don't seem to understand how the United States Senate works. https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1307786674793897984 …
      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 22 Sep 2020
      Replying to @joehammon @willwilkinson

      Oh, it is absolutely the case that the electorate elected a Republican Senate in 2014, 2016, & 2018. Counting popular vote that way just doesn't make sense.

      8:34 AM - 22 Sep 2020
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        2. Joe Hammon‏ @joehammon 22 Sep 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @willwilkinson

          Notice that you're writing "the electorate" and not "the American People" here.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Joe Hammon‏ @joehammon 22 Sep 2020
          Replying to @joehammon @baseballcrank @willwilkinson

          The point in all this is that "the American People" and the electorate in a given Senate election, are two different things.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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