That, unfortunately, is what happens when you rationalize your principles to your tribal resentments rather than the other way around.
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Frederick Douglass had some thoughts on that sort of argumenthttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1148321541702205441?t=0s1-W4kDVNOeraTzDtFbKg&s=19 …
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All practical politics involves compromising some of one's principles, morals, preferences, & loyalties. The question is whether you're selling out the small things for the big things, or the other way around.
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Edmund Burke also has some things to say on the kind of compromises that can & can't be justified in partisan politicshttps://www.nationalreview.com/corner/edmund-burke-on-principled-partisanship/ …
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sounds like someone doesn't want to talk about the terrible Texas law.
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No, it speaks to overall, base-level motivation (which is obfuscated), not questionable beliefs marbled within the larger project.
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Coming from Virginia, where in 2012 Gov. McDonnell and legislature passed a law requiring women to have invasive transvaginal ultrasounds and an unnecessary waiting period as a requirment prior to an abortion, not repealed until 2020. Kristol is on target.https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/01/29/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-repeal-mandatory-ultrasound-waiting-period-for-abortion/ …
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"Abolitionists aren't anti slavery! They just want to punish the South's economy by banning the slave trade" Same party. Different century.
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