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    Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 12

    Jonathan Chait Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

    Ah, yes, you refuted my belief in the right to popular sovereignty by pointing to an Apartheid system of mass disenfranchisement.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1381686564531679233 …

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    Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
    If you think pure majoritarianism is paramount, as @jonathanchait seems to imply we should, ask yourself how popular Jim Crow laws were in states with white supermajorities of the population.
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      2. Tom‏ @tomfooleryatlaw Apr 12

        "If we ignore what he actually said or the logical consequences of what he said, it makes sense."

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      1. Sean Curley‏ @Sean_C2 Apr 12
        Replying to @jonathanchait

        Also, as a point of fact, in several Jim Crow states black people were a majority of the population (near 60% in a couple of them as late as 1900, before the Great Migration).

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      1. ZP‏ @ZombiePresident Apr 12
        Replying to @jonathanchait

        I swear, I only ever see that guy's tweets when he's being dunked on for an incredibly stupid take. Which is not at all a rare occurrence.

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      1. John Hay‏ @SecStateJohnHay Apr 12
        Replying to @jonathanchait

        Also: Black Americans had majorities of the population in at least three southern states when Jim Crow began.

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      2. Beep Boop‏ @BeepBoo01676605 Apr 12
        Replying to @jonathanchait

        On the one hand, pure populism does need constraints, but where Mclaughlin is wrong is in how those should work. He thinks it should be by having some undemocratic power structures. But it's better to have robust minority rights protections in law.

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      2. Peter Sagal‏Verified account @petersagal Apr 12
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        Is he actually saying that a century long scheme to deny a significant proportion of the population from voting through codified racism and terrorist violence is evidence *against letting everybody vote?*

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      3. Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait Apr 12
        Replying to @petersagal

        Why, yes.

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      1. Dan Houston‏ @DanDhoust24 Apr 12
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        There were no teachers unions in the South. Right up your alley bro.

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