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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 Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted G. Elliott Morris

      We've had this system, in broad outline, for 2+ centuries, through multiple expansions of the electorate, many different partisan coalitions, & endless shifts in who benefits from what at particular moments. Skepticism should always face those who urge blowing it up for an edge.https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1429556769022517251 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      G. Elliott MorrisVerified account @gelliottmorris
      Not worth debating on here with you, but I think it says a lot more about you/your outlet than it does about me that you think trying to change a political and electoral system that is biased towards one party by 6 points (and growing) is "entrenching" democrats (NB lower-"d") https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1429547137696739337 …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonathan Chait

      We have a deliberative system. A Republican majority in 2022, for example, does not instantly nullify the president elected in 2020 or the 2/3 of the Senate elected in 2020 & 2018. This is American civics 101.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1429560908200689665 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
      What if, instead of needing to win “The kind of majorities that can actually win elections”, they just needed to win majorities? And what if Republicans also needed to win majorities in order to govern? https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1429547137696739337 …
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      I remember when these same pundits were arguing that majorities in midterm elections were illegitimate. I went back through this in this October thread.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1321546460106838021 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      Another one who has totally blocked out the whole "two electorates" talking point that was so common it was described at the time as conventional wisdom https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/midterm-election-turnout-isnt-so-different-from-presidential-year-turnout/ … https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1321545119783411714 …
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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Isaac Chotiner

      Yes, multi-year majorities, because the different branches are elected on different schedules. Majorities with a wide, diverse base, rather than concentrated in a single region. This is how American governing majorities have always been formed.https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1429563782875914241 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Isaac ChotinerVerified account @IChotiner
      “Kinds of majorities” is a great phrase https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1429547137696739337 …
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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      This stuff is not complicated. Americans my age learned it by fourth grade.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Every two years, we have federal elections. Every two years, progressives revise their theories of why it is illegitimate for any elected Republican to represent the people who elected them.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted A.R. Moxon

      Here's another one who doesn't grasp the basic multi-year, multi-branch structure of American government that minimally educated people have learned in grammar school for two centurieshttps://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1429604864754061317 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat
      “The kinds of majorities that can win elections” says a hell of a lot about Republican intentions as regards democracy. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1429547137696739337 …
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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Holden

      There literally is nothing more than this to any of what progressives argue about our systemhttps://twitter.com/Holden114/status/1429606765985939458 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Holden @Holden114
      Replying to @baseballcrank
      The Vox model of governance posits the system is broken whenever Democrats aren't in the power.
      4 replies 16 retweets 85 likes
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Aug 22

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Tom Scocca

      We've had both filibuster & gerrymandering for 200+. Ds filibustered hundreds of times during the Trump Admin, never stopped gerrymandering. We've added states only once since the last frontier states were admitted by 1912, & haven't in over 60 years.https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1429616028829593604 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Tom Scocca @tomscocca
      Does @baseballcrank know people can see the tweets he pretends to be responding to? Which of these things he originally jumped in to yell in defense of—the no-show filibuster, hyper-gerrymandering, or freezing the number of states—has two centuries of tradition behind it? pic.twitter.com/OLd6dDyuPz
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        1. Spiked Underbelly‏ @clevertrope Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Did we have 0 effort filibusters my dude? We did not.

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        1. Wheelman: A Netflix Film‏ @ericthewheeler Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Colonies are actually good if you think about it. Smart take

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        2.  💉 💉#BLM  ✊🏻 Sebastian  😷 Peitsch  🌈‏ @SPeitsch Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          No you didn’t. I‘m German and know this. It takes five seconds to look up how many cloture motions (you know the thing to end filibusters?) there were for every Senate and there are a helluva lot of ZEROES there before a certain date https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/clotureCounts.htm …

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        3.  💉 💉#BLM  ✊🏻 Sebastian  😷 Peitsch  🌈‏ @SPeitsch Aug 22
          Replying to @SPeitsch @baseballcrank

          It’s almost as if around 1962 something changed It’s a mystery isn’t it?

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        1. Brent‏ @brentmm Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          60 years, 200 years what’s the diff huh?

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        1. Peace. Truth. Science.‏ @bkerrjung Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Here's what the founders wanted and really the only thing you can say they all really wanted: a government that changes and evolves over time. Here's what I want: majority rule and 1 person 1 vote. Like a real democracy that graduated from the 18th century.

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        2. david "please get vaccinated" m‏ @dave_m_ Aug 22
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Dan's smart enough to know why one party doesn't stop gerrymanding by itself, it's just that he doesn't respect his readers, so he trots out that nonsense. all bad faith, all the time

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        3. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 Aug 23
          Replying to @dave_m_ @baseballcrank

          This

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        1. Mr. Z‏ @son_of_jz Aug 23
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Shit changes, man.pic.twitter.com/MjmYIgjjmi

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        1. Becky P‏ @rmp619 Aug 23
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          I live in Illinois, a supermajority blue state, and I could talk your ear off about gerrymandering from the Dems. Somehow, to progressives, this is different than when R’s do it in other places. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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