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@bernybelvedere
Jul 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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I think this piece is entirely incorrect, but it's worse than just wrong—it operates from that impossibly obnoxious posture of wistful pity over the Sad and Tragic Fate of David French when it's the author who is unwittingly documenting her own descent.

patheos.com/blogs/youngfog…
It takes a remarkable blinkeredness to include a defense of Trump's Charlottesville apologia in a post about MY WAYWARD BROTHER DAVID FRENCH
It's absurd on its face to treat Drag Queen Story Hour as the threshold of licentious depravity.

"If French is willing to uphold the constitutional norm that allows drag queens to read stories in public libraries THERE IS NO END TO THE MORAL HORRORS HE WILL ENDORSE!!!!"
Counterpoint: it is absolutely possible—normal even—to enjoy Game of Thrones but think Trump is obscenely evil. In fact, it's a mark of a judicious capacity to discriminate between dissimilar things.
This framing is hugely clarifying—its author uses it to signal she is fundamentally unbothered by the penetration of Trumpism into our political culture. My view, by contrast, is we should adopt a posture of permanent revulsion toward Trump. Good to have our cards on the table.
Oh my God. Someone just sent me this one from yesterday. Do I even want to look?

americanmind.org/salvo/david-fr…
These people are literally insane
I ASK YOU, INQUISITIVE STUDENTS OF THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE, WHAT IS STOPPING DAVID LUCIFER FRENCH FROM CALLING FOR OUR EXECUTIONS???
I feel like I should clarify that my “these people are insane” comment was about Claremont chuds. I absolutely believe Esther is sharp and capable and that she simply gets this one quite wrong.

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Nov 4
1: Trump has just run one of the most hysterically alarmist presidential campaigns in history.

The whole thing was an attempt to use a baseless crime panic to build a red wave, propel his anti-immigrant crackdown, and reintroduce cartoonishly regressive law and order policies.
2: The crime panic's main function, of course, has been to get him reelected.

It’s why he killed an immigration bill earlier in the year that accommodated nearly every Republican demand and was negotiated by conservative stalwart James Lankford.

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3: Passing the bill would’ve disarmed Trump of a narrative critical to his attempts to retake the White House. So he torpedoed the implementation of everything Republicans had been asking for in order to prioritize getting reelected. Image
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Oct 11
1. During the VP debate earlier this month, JD Vance spent the entire evening audaciously attempting to recast himself, and the MAGA philosophy he champions, as the embodiment of common-sense normalcy.

It was preposterous.

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2. Vance’s aim was to project a cogency and coherence onto Trump that is fundamentally alien to him, and a governing seriousness onto MAGAism that would be wholly absent in a second Trump term.

As @JVLast said, Vance sought to come off as “an entirely normal political persona.”
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Sep 12
1: It is difficult to overstate how utterly unhinged the right’s reaction to Tuesday night’s presidential debate has been.

I have never seen a collective freakout about the media this embarrassingly frivolous.

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2: Let’s use a sitting U.S. senator as our starting point.

30 minutes in, Mike Lee asked who else was annoyed by ABC. Hours later, he ran a poll getting 10K votes at 93% disapproval for ABC. Then, last night, he suggested that we “reexamine the laws” regarding TV broadcasting.

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3: Obviously, social media polls run by ideologically self-segregated hardliners will always be plagued by insuperable selection bias.

But that’s exactly what makes it valuable here: it’s a window into the right’s widespread—and entirely ridiculous—contempt for the moderators.
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Aug 4
1: Since replacing Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, @VP Kamala Harris has attracted ungodly levels of racist disparagement posing as solemn concerns about her qualifications and merit.

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2: It’s all just a recycled outrage campaign from before—a rehash of the same treatment she got when Biden picked her to be VP.

Only, instead of “She’s a DEI candidate!” … it was “She’s being picked due to identity politics!” then.


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3: Of course, this rhetorical strategy isn’t Kamala-specific.

It’s a time-honored template right-wing race-baiters routinely deploy to cast doubt on the governing, legislative, or presidential readiness of minority candidates, especially black ones, on the basis of their race.
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Jul 25
1: On Sunday, Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from the 2024 race.

Following that announcement, there was an immediate consolidation behind Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee.

Republicans criticized both developments as undemocratic. They’re wrong.

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2: The following is just a sampler. There’s a million other examples of Republicans—along with some brain-addled Democrats—claiming this was all undemocratic, or that it was tantamount to a coup against Biden, or that Harris lacks democratic legitimacy.


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Jul 23
So turns out End Wokeness, one of the most reprehensible scumbags on this entire site, is Jack Posobiec, a neo-Nazi pizzagate pioneer.

Checks out.
Ryan Mcbeth’s video breaking it all down:
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Alejandra Caraballo might’ve actually been the first to catch this.
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