Maybe @tribelaw teaches the Constitution pre-17th Amendment, from the era when citizens were too stupid to evaluate Senators themselves?
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well, at least you're punching up.
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I consider responding to anyone who is so disdainful of democracy as punching down, admittedly. A truly shameful stance.
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I don't begrudge Tribe or Dersh for speaking their minds. I don't see either man as 'shameful' in any way.
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I have zero problem if Tribe wants to make a robust case for Kamala Harris. None. But that's not what he did.
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He's talking politics,not law here. It's a good question too.
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Him talking politics would be to say, here's why I think Harris is a superb candidate. What he did instead was deploy a shoddy caricature.
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And that caricature showed a deep disdain for democracy.
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Bullshit. That's your biased opinion. It's silly. A deep disdain for democracy? Hahahahaha hahahahahaha. How deep? How do you measure?

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I like to take each voters' views on own. I think people who don't--& who assume bad faith about entire swaths of voters--is anti-democratic
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That's true bc it is the fundamental premise of democracy that each voter is due respect.
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The First Amendment applies to government action. The professor is not the government. (Also he's not quashing anything).
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Quashing was a bad word. But most people who teach the constitution honor basic democracy. Tribe here is shitting on it.
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In any case I supposed Tribe's problem was with the 17th Amendment, the notion that actual voters be entrusted with their actual votes.
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I think Tribe sees the usual suspects on the far left piling on Harris as not acting in good faith. He was way too overbroad though.
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Right. The first mistake, IMO, is always assuming there ARE "usual suspects," not individualized actions over time.
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I see your point but when you see the same stuff from the same people constantly, it gets grating. Tribe grossly overgeneralized in response
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By same people is Haim Saban included? Some of Hillary's top online voices?
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Absolutely. Haim Saban's actions against Ellison were unacceptable (and that's no outlier for him)
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There's a difference between legit questions (prob Sanders' stance) and the kind of purity tests his supporters on Twitter are calling for.
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There's also a difference between treating indiv voters' views as just that and silencing them, as you're doing right now.
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Uh, how in the world is my tweet silencing someone??? We are officially down the rabbit hole.

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You're portraying a wide variety of views as a caricature (and insinuating my views are not honestly held).
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That's such a gross exaggeration of what I said but ok.
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OK. "purity test" is accurate but "caricature" is not, in your opinion. Got. It.
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