The right knows this! "We talked about the sanctity of free enterprise until we were blue in the face....But we never really won until we began stressing issues like busing, abortion," R. Viguerie, GOP strategist & guy who invented direct-mail strategy.
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Replying to @ikuziemko @delong and
Yes, and Christianity didn't really won until it allied with the power of the Roman state. I do not think this means that the entire Christian project is inherently monarchical, hierarchical, etc.
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As a young girl growing up devoutly Catholic, it felt pretty hierarchical and monarchical to me. I don't think it's controversial to say the sex scandals would have been fewer had the Church been less hierarchical and lay people less unquestioning of priests' power.
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Replying to @ikuziemko @delong and
What I am saying is that "Many people who believe in problematic doctrine X have strategically embraced evil institution Y" does not imply "All believers in X are supporters of Y". Not only does this not follow, but this style of logic is incredibly pernicious.
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Few of us on this thread are saying that, so no need to shoot down that strawman. But as
@delong says, it is also ahistorical to minimize past/present prejudices of powerful groups (e.g., libertarians, who have an outsize influence, as you say) bc you want them on your side.3 replies 0 retweets 22 likes -
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I have said, about a dozen times and will say again now, that many libertarians, perhaps even most, in the United States and certainly most who followed libertarian leaders were motivated by white supremacist ideas. So no disagreement there.
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Replying to @ProfDBernstein @glenweyl and
Yes, I too have black friends, which therefore proves that I do not support policies and ideas that have practically and systematically undermined equal access for African Americans to opportunities and resources in the United States.
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I think that you should examine more of the entire sprawling conversation:https://twitter.com/geedee215/status/1079789994691227649?s=21 …
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Lysol In E FlatVerified account @GeeDee215Replying to @GeeDee215 @glenweyl and 8 othersWhite supremacy is an organizing force of US life, and always has been. There have been strains of it in all manner of ideologies, but libertarians have a very specific, ongoing relationship to antiblackness and anti-civil rights policy.3 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Brad DeLong: 'Live long, & prosper!'
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Brad DeLong: 'Live long, & prosper!' @delongReplying to @kimmaicutler @glenweylI had thought that my brilliant-but-at-times-highly-annoying coauthor@Econ_Marshall was making a more sophisticated point—that here in America "libertarianism" is a Frankenstein's monster that got its lightning-bolt juice from massive resistance to the Civil Rights Movement. 1/0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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