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https://twitter.com/karpmj/status/18259120984355433862) I feel like an implication of Matt Karp's argument is that a major obstacle to egalitarian reform in the U.S. is progressives/leftists' insufficient willingness to withhold praise from mainstream Democrats. And that strikes me as delusional.
https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/17161181685260128392) For weeks, I have argued that the fixation of some leftists on whether Hamas cut off the heads of infants was bizarre, since it isn’t any less morally hideous to shoot or burn an infant to death than to cut off their heads. Here is an excerpt from one such exchange:
https://twitter.com/mattgertz/status/1715848616059756720Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.
https://twitter.com/wpmarble/status/1703798638693212364I suspect that the causal chain here is: socially conservative working-class voters become Republicans as culture war issues gain salience —> they adjust their economic views to match their partisanship (while socially liberal college grads took the opposite journey)
https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/15881425324578938912) One of the main points of democracy as a governing system is that it is an infinite game, in which the polity's losers can content themselves with the possibility of future victory.
https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/14754601505972387862) One side in this fight is pushing for a truce on gerrymandering that would establish rules of fair play nationwide, It even let its most moderate Senator author the legislation with an eye towards securing GOP support. It didn't work. vox.com/22537146/joe-m…