Cheney is being ejected from the Republican Party because she continues to speak out against its anti-democratic wing.
Greenwald avoids talking about that when attacking those who praise her. Much easier to mock people's bios.
"Ha-ha, look this person who supports BLM and MeToo also praises politicians who don't vote to overturn elections" is perhaps just less of an own than GG thinks it s.
GG will talk about Cheney's past and all the reasons she is a terrible person. But thats not why she is being exiled from GOP party leadership though, is it? Or why some liberals are praising her? It's almost like some people want to downplay efforts to overturn US democracy.
Its really not that complicated. One party refusing to accept the outcome of the election is not a "trivial partisan concern" - it's a threat to democracy. It's actually good to have a system where people can set policy differences aside to agree on basic democratic protections.
There was a window after the Capitol insurrection when the GOP could have punished the anti-democratic elements of the party. But they kept Trump, and now those refute the Big Lie are being exiled because they are an awkward reminder of that choice. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
GG's whole shtick is that liberals are hypocrites. Fine. But by standard political science measures US democracy has gotten weaker, and the threat is not over yet (see @ThePlumLineGS).
Its not hypocrisy to prefer the pro-democratic wing of the GOP. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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The connections are pretty clear. Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society helped bankroll the work of Ginni Thomas. He also arranged for Clarence Thomas to attend Koch fundraisers. propublica.org/article/claren…
The shared purpose of Leonard Leo, Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas and the Koch network was to put right-wing judges on the court. And Clarence Thomas used his public position on the court to raise money for that.
Clarence Thomas used to support the Chevron doctrine, which allows delegation to administrative expertise. But the people who fund the Koch network can't buy off administrators, so they want to remove their influence from the process. Now Thomas agrees with the donors.
Also this guy: young people today can't afford a house because they occasionally buy new clothes
If the people @FinancialReview care for free speech at all, they will do the decent thing and allow replies to this tweet, allowing a full and frank exchange of views.
America has 22 times the firearm homicide rates as the European Union.
We are less safe and less free because of how available guns are in this country. healthdata.org/news-events/in…
America makes up about 15% of gun homicides, and together with five other countries constitutes half of gun homicides in the world. vox.com/2018/8/29/1779…
The reason more people in America are dying from guns is because there are more guns in America.
America is the only country with more guns than people. cnn.com/2021/11/26/wor…
New, from me: I wrote about how the emerging debacle at New College (one-third of faculty gone, students can't find classes, housed in airport hotels) reflects the incompetence of populists like DeSantis.
Competence, the ability to perform organizational core tasks, is an underrated quality. It is an especially overlooked quality by people who value other things, like ideological goals, or believe that existing institutions are corrupt, or who have never actually run things.
Fuck Around (left, celebrating the firing of a faculty who criticized the Regents)
and
Find Out: (right, soliciting faculty applications because you don't have enough to teach classes - one-third have left for some reason).
The DeSantis takeover of New College was meant to offer a model of a conservative-run higher ed.
The result is chaos, which is what happens when incompetent people who don't actually care about organizational mission take over public services. insidehighered.com/news/students/…
The NY Times recently featured Chris Rufo to explain how DEI was undermining liberal education.
You know what actually undermines a liberal education?
Losing one-third of faculty.
Not offering core classes to students.
Raging incompetence and blind indifference.
Rufo is seeking to personally recruit replacements. Which is completely at odds with what university trustees are supposed to do. No way that could go wrong, right?
From the internal Texas A&M reports: it was A&M Regents who signaled their opposition to McElroy, at which point the university figured out they would not tenure her.
Seems like the Regents cost A&M $1M. Nice job.
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Not great when a university President is saying "I'm assuming all texts were deleted" and then tells faculty she was not involved in hiring process. (She has since resigned).