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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. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 10
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      “Anyone can do it“ is usually the mantra of people who can’t do whatever it is they’re talking about

      6 replies 3 retweets 84 likes
    2. Cathy Young‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 Mar 10
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank

      The predictable obsessions of Trumpists (The Bulwark, David French) never cease to amuse me

      4 replies 2 retweets 36 likes
    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 10
      Replying to @CathyYoung63 @RadioFreeTom

      Some of them are also obsessed with NR; then again, so are The Bulwark & lots of the Left. The difference is that David actually has things he believes; the Bulwarkers increasingly just sell Democratic policy for spite.

      3 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    4. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 10
      Replying to @baseballcrank @CathyYoung63

      I don't think the Bulwark is obsessed with NR, and that's a pretty big rock to throw from inside a glass house that has its own share of obsessives and people whose principles have seemed pretty negotiable over the past five years. But David is not one of them, to be sure.

      2 replies 0 retweets 29 likes
    5. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 Mar 10
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @CathyYoung63

      I also think Dan is wrong to impugn the motives of the folks at the Bulwark. A lot of them are pushing Democrats and Democratic policy because they believe Republicans need to lose & be punished for subverting democracy. It’s a reasonable argument to say Republicans are the real

      3 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 10
      Replying to @brianros1 @RadioFreeTom @CathyYoung63

      In other words, spite. They were not so focused on us before the election, but there seems to be an escalating effort to generate that conflict.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    7. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 10
      Replying to @baseballcrank @brianros1 @CathyYoung63

      You can't tell the difference between "I want Democrats to win out of spite" and "I am going to help Democrats win because I believe the Republicans have become a menace to democracy?"

      2 replies 3 retweets 44 likes
    8. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 Mar 10
      Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank @CathyYoung63

      It’s principle. Where they disagree strongly with you, Dan, is that they think democracy matters more than those policy areas where they’ve long agreed with you. I’ve heard several of them discuss it quite eloquently.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 10
      Replying to @brianros1 @RadioFreeTom @CathyYoung63

      My quarrel is with the refusal to even engage with conservative arguments any longer about the structural threats the Democrats & their ideology & methods present to the system.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    10. Brian Rosenwald‏ @brianros1 Mar 10
      Replying to @baseballcrank @RadioFreeTom @CathyYoung63

      Democrats’ ideology poses no threats to the system in the way Republicans’ ideology does. It’s that simple One party is happily tying itself to a guy who courted an insurrection & gaslighted people about an election. The other did not.

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Mar 10
      Replying to @brianros1 @RadioFreeTom @CathyYoung63

      You said it yourself: it's about a guy. As opposed to a systematic, century-long effort to remove the Constitution from constitutional law & empower judicial & administrative discretion & permanent autopilot budgeting to the detriment of the elected branches.

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        2. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 10
          Replying to @baseballcrank @brianros1 @CathyYoung63

          It's about a guy who revealed a giant cancer in the GOP, and who acted as a test of character failed by millions. I have said - just a few days ago here - that the left has a totalitarian streak. But that notional threat pales next to the *demonstrated damage* of the GOP.

          3 replies 1 retweet 35 likes
        3. Tom Nichols‏Verified account @RadioFreeTom Mar 10
          Replying to @RadioFreeTom @baseballcrank and

          But to go back to the point, Dan, arguing that the Bulwark guys are unprincipled and obsessed with NR - when NR has become kind of obsessive and morally unmoored itself - is really a gutsy take.

          1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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        2. Michael Merritt‏ @MikeWMerritt Mar 10
          Replying to @baseballcrank @brianros1 and

          Republicans had five years to restore the full filibuster and did nothing about it and in fact destroyed it more, then blamed Democrats for their own actions. Now they are up in arms when Democrats try it again. This is not a one-way street.

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        3. Michael Merritt‏ @MikeWMerritt Mar 10
          Replying to @MikeWMerritt @baseballcrank and

          I was wrong, it was six years. To the direct point, you're right about the degrading of constitutional order but Republicans don't seem to care. They had the same amount of time to take back things like tariff powers and did nothing, and not one word against Trump's tariff moves.

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        1. ZaxxonGalaxian‏ @ZaxxonGalaxian Mar 11
          Replying to @baseballcrank @brianros1 and

          There’s no comparison. Republicans are trying to undermine our democracy, while Democrats have some policies you don’t like.

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