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Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald
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1. "Kids" like @Emma4Change & @davidhogg111 demand that politicians change policy. The policies they demand fit completely in Supreme Court precedent. "Adults" respond by name-calling, insulting their haircuts, attacking them for wearing a flag that GOP Cuban-Americans display...
2...invoking a version of the Second Amendment that has never been recognized by America's constitutional government as correct, issuing death threats, insulting them. These are "kids" versus "adults." One side calling for political response, the other name calling. In....
3...this debate, age is not determining maturity. A MATURE adult would take what @Emma4Change and @davidhogg111 ACTUALLY say, not some made up version they find on the internet, and debate them on policy. And real policy, not fantasy versions of the 2nd Amendment.....
4...but too many conservatives have become incapable of actual debate. They say "my political opponents think this, and now I attack what i say they think" when no one thinks what they say. They indulge in whataboutism. And when all else fails, they insult, issue death threats...
5...mock kids who have more maturity in their little fingers than these "adults" do, try and find something to attack about them even though it has nothing to do with the issue at hand (e tu, @EWErickson), feign outrage over a curse word, or, of course, make up what people....
6...are calling for so they can scream about it. It is infantile. This has been the behavior of a faction of the conservatives since the 1980s that has now taken over the party. Back then, the issue was apartheid. Yes, young GOPrs attacked people who opposed apartheid. They....
7...tore down their protest symbols (remember that, @AnnCoulter, since you either participated or cheered it) they screamed name calling, the invoked fantasies, AGAIN PEOPLE WHO WANTED APARTHEID TO END. And then when Nelson Mandela - YES, Nelson Mandela - was released from....
8...prison, they called him a terrorist and a communist. They denigrated him, they insulted him. One of the greatest men in world history. And what did he say? The kids who fought against apartheid, the ones opposed by the @anncoulter of the world, the ones who conservatives....
9...said were too young and stupid to understand - THEY were the ones Nelson Mandela thanked. THEY were the ones who he said helped to bring an end to apartheid. All the name calling and vandalism and insults and fantasies did nothing. The conservatives were fighting against....
10...the people who made the world a better place. So, @EWErickson and @AnnCoulter and @FoxNews - if all you have is name calling and false narratives, please go away. We are waiting to hear the adult teenagers who have shown more maturity than the entire conservative movement.
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