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5 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Yahoo News reports on my Twitter thread last night news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson…
Also for those interested, I have a tab on my website called "Second Thoughts" where I post articles I have written over the years explaining how and why I changed my mind on some issues. davidfrum.com/articles?categ…

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You may notice two gaps: climate change and guns. That's because on those two issues I did not change my mind. Beginning about 2004 w climate and after 2013 w guns, I just spoke more publicly about views I'd previously advocated more privately within the conservative church.
Anyway, while we're on the topic of "endless wars," here's my case for avoiding one with China. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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6 May
When the Obama White House in 2009 declined to take questions from Fox News reporters on the grounds that "Fox was not a news organization," the rest of the White House press gallery went to bat for Fox. EG: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv… Image
A decade later, the Fox affiliate in Florida is accepting exclusive media rights to coverage of taxpayer-funded state business from Governor Rick DeSantis. 2/x
The bend-over-backwards determination to recognize Fox as a legitimate news organization is never reciprocated by Fox itself, however. 3/x
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5 May
Carlson has some abusive personal comments about me 2/3 of the way through this complicated excuse and justification for the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Anti-vax; pro-insurrection - quite a combo. As to the abuse, I'll say just this ... 1/x
I've known Carlson for more than 20 years. We were colleagues at the Weekly Standard in the 1990s, I appeared fairly often on his MSNBC show in the 2000s. We were "Washington friends" - we had lunch, he came to parties at my house, etc. 2/x
All this was during the period of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Carlson now proclaims his fierce opposition to both. But *when it mattered* - when his already influential voice could have made a difference to the national decision - he was a FEROCIOUS advocate of both wars. 3/x
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4 May
By exaggerating the power of China, US policymakers risk harming this country by justifying protectionism and inflating the defense budget beyond reasonable levels. Trump added $100 billion / year in defense spending, most of it aimed at fighting China. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Buy American" will cost the US taxpayer another $100 billion a year.

That unnecessary $200 billion could buy a *lot* of more authentic usefulness: carbon reduction, road improvement, cheaper college tuition theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
I get that Democratic administrations never want to argue, "The foreign threat of the moment - while real - is less terrifying than out-of-power Republicans say it is."

So I'll say it, here:

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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1 May
It's an incredible thing that a work of human scientific genius like the mRNA vaccine is regularly traduced by the liars and low-lifes who sell supplements.
I wrote this in 2009 about the scam of the supplement industry cnn.com/2009/OPINION/1…
More about supplements from 2009. Under the Trump administration, enforcement of supplement safety regulations became even more lax. cnn.com/2009/OPINION/1… Image
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27 Apr
Only a very few weeks ago, Fox News was indignant at the thought that anyone might dare to police other people's heads and faces. foxnews.com/food-drink/jud…
Refuse service to people who wear Trump head gear onto your private property? Outrageous! Accost people in the public street about their non-Trump face gear? Serves them right! facebook.com/FoxNews/posts/…
I'm finding quite a lot of these Fox stories about the right to wear a MAGA hat onto other people's property - even as Fox is tonight upholding the right of MAGA people to police what other people wear in public streets. foxnews.com/food-drink/tru…
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24 Apr
This NYT story on GOP attempt at voter suppression in Texas illustrates a paradox I described in @TheAtlantic last week ... 1/x
@TheAtlantic The story is set in Harris County, Texas (greater Houston). Texas GOP hopes to repeal innovations that promoted record voting in 2020.

Now the paradox: 2/x
@TheAtlantic Harris County, target of GOP voter suppression in 2021, is one of the counties where the Latino vote swung most sharply to Trump in 2020. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 3/x
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