Funny how you discover the virtue of being fair when I apply *your* reasoning against *your* argument. Yet, if you object to conservatives saying "wait, pure, unchecked majoritarianism with no counterbalancing values can go bad places," well, that is the textbook example.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1381687057890873351 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Nathan Wurtzel
Or voting to make someone else their property, for that matter.https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1381686877170851855 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonathan Chait
I literally do not believe that, and have never argued that, not that it will stop you saying so. Raising the top tax rate is economically self-defeating. Past a certain point, it is also unfair. It is not the same thing as not allowing people to vote.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1381689254921842693 …
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Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchaitRight, see you think raising the top tax rate is in the same category as not allowing people to vote. (Discrimination against the rich!) That's my whole point. That's how the conservative movement sees the world. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1381687754225029127 …Show this thread18 replies 10 retweets 61 likesShow this thread -
What I believe in is, essentially, the classical liberal order championed by Abraham Lincoln. Democracy is one of the components of that, but it has never been the only one.
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Democracy may or may not be pure majoritarianism, but if you acknowledge the legitimacy of *any* restraints on majorities, Chait's demagogic attack on the conservative critique dissolves. All we're saying is that our system isn't & shouldn't be 100% pure majoritarianism.https://twitter.com/jbview/status/1381694474049486854 …
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Black Americans in 1890: US population: 11.9% Georgia 46.7% Alabama 44.8% Florida 42.5% Virginia 38.4% North Carolina 34.7% DC 32.8% Arkansas 27.4% Tennessee 24.4% Texas 21.8% Kentucky 14.4% Missouri 5.6% West Virginia 4.3% Majority in only 3 states. https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1381701082628419591 …
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I suppose one can argue that Jim Crow only ever actually existed in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana, but you need a pretty strange definition of Jim Crow for that to be true.
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Anyway, in the American system, the majority always wins in the long run, if it is sufficiently united & determined. Which is as it should be. And the people yelling at me today will be back tomorrow defending undemocratic rule by activist judges & unelected bureaucrats.
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The great thing about being a conservative is not having to adopt a bunch of inconsistent, situational stances about our system based on who's in office or what we're trying to sell to whom on a given day.
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Are you for against free trade? Are corporations people or not? Are deficits good or bad? Are you for or against foreign intervention? Is NATO good or bad? Should big tech be regulated or should we cut their taxes? Does character matter in leaders? Well?
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You would likely discover, if you read my work over the past 20 years, that my views on each of those points has been consistent over time.
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