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    Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 7

    Jonathan Chait Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

    It's comical to deny NR institutionally believes too many people vote. National Review has been saying this for decades, beginning with Buckley in the 50s. Innumerable NR columnists have too. It hasn't stopped. There have been two this week!https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1379840430104317954 …

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    Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
    Funny, I don't recall Chait ascribing Kevin Williamson's view of Donald Trump and his voters to the entire magazine. https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1379835574320783367 …
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      2. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 7

        So yes, NR has internal disagreements on some subjects (like how personally awesome Donald Trump is, or isn't.) But "too many people vote" is so common to NR it's almost hackneyed. I'd bet there have been dozens, maybe hundreds of columns making this point.

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      3. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 8

        NR has split over Trump's personal style. But the anti-Trumpers have generally followed Buckley's posture toward George Wallace et al: Disdain for low-class demagogues combined with conviction that the problem is too much democracy.

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      4. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 8

        It's often be a mistake to attribute one writers' view to an entire publication. But the desire to winnow the electorate of "unqualified" voters has been a foundational NR position since Jim Crow.

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      1. Andrew Barber  🌐 🌹‏ @abarber1 Apr 7
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      1. david "please get vaccinated" m‏ @dave_m_ Apr 7
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        Also, the standard conservative position is that voting should be more difficult...it’s hard to not see that as a wish that fewer people were voting

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      1. sobral‏ @domclaver Apr 7
        Replying to @jonathanchait

        Ironically the reason I think those takes are silly is the same reason I really like William F. Buckley's phone book quote, even if that was not his intended meaning (not familiar with the context).

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      1. William B Stahl‏ @WStahl09 Apr 7
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        It was sort of cute when Buckley made this argument, sort of like a grand duchess clutching her pearls. I don't think he would want to be associated with the current practitioners, but we'll never know.

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      1. dave rubin recall meltdown stan account‏ @MeitavRoye Apr 7
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        Virtually every prominent writer still affiliated with NR loves everything that happened under Trump's term*, they just wish he was less of an uncouth boor about it. I struggle to see any internal disagreements on the site beyond that.

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      2. David Alexander‏ @DaveAlexanderID Apr 8
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        I heard Buckley speak on this very topic in St. Louis in 1988. His point was not that too many vote. It was that he had no interest in encouraging to vote those who had no interest in the issues.

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      3. #VoteSaveTexas‏ @MommyofPommies Apr 8
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        Yet they still vote - and some demographics have easier access to vote than others, regardless of interest in issues.

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