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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, New Yorker, retired from lawyering. Opinions 100% my own. Not the ex-Cardinals broadcaster.
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Dec 1, 2023 39 tweets 4 min read
We're on. Image DeSantis leads with California running out of U-hauls for people fleeing the state, and goes hard after Newsom personally.
Nov 11, 2023 14 tweets 2 min read
Debate at #fedsoc2023 on laws regulating social media platforms. Richard Epstein making the case that "market dominance" of platforms in public speech legitimizes regulation. Epstein gets a laugh by noting the tendency of platforms like this one to decide that, say, his opinions are more dangerous than pornography. #fedsoc2023
Sep 7, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
1. LOL, this is some spin. Disney chose to file these then-much-hyped claims in federal court. Some of us have long warned that they were fatally undermined by the problems identified in the Board's state court suit.

It means the only remaining claim is vs state legislation. 2. The fact that Disney dropped all its claims against executive actions means that its sole remaining claim runs up against formidable 11th Circuit precedent, Ala. Educ. Ass'n v. Bentley (In re Hubbard), 803 F.3d 1298 (11th Cir 2015).
Jun 28, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Of course, @JackPosobiec is wrong about the law & the facts. Trump did not declassify the documents while he was president, & could not do so in 2021-22 when he was no longer president. He's on tape acknowledging as much. @JackPosobiec As I will remind new readers, I called BS extensively on the Manhattan DA indictment. While there are ample reasons to bring skepticism to the boxes indictment, it lays out a very strong case against which Trump's legal defenses are quite flimsy. nationalreview.com/2023/06/how-to…
Jun 1, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Ah, that special vintage of Humpty Dumpty progressive agitprop where the words are redefined & reality is precisely inverted.

They're not mad that there's a system of schools, journals, firm, and judgeships devoted to promoting an ideology, but that theirs isn't the only one. LOL, these guys don't even *have* a comprehensible theory of how to read the Constitution or statutes, but they think that asserting "we're the smart guys, actually" is a substitute for one. Also that nobody will notice them rebranding progressivism as "mainstream."
May 17, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
By the 1980s, racism wasn't gone in America, but it was finished, in the sense of broad public consensus that it was bad & should go away.

That consensus took over a century to build. Tearing it down instead of focusing on completing the job was a horrendous idea. Not a coincidence at all. The logic of the Democrats' approach to voter groups & their resentments hasn't changed a jot. They just substituted different groups with different resentments.
May 16, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The latter part of this is just obvious nonsense. If you know any Russian history, you don't need any sympathy for Putin to know that a revanchist Russia will be paranoid about an encircling alliance in what it sees as its traditional sphere of influence. Sure, the Russian regime mistrusts the spread of liberal democracy among its neighbors. With the brief exception of a few years in the 1990s, that's been true since 1789. But if NATO transformed into an anti-Russian alliance of fascist states, Putin would still dread it.
Mar 25, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I was watching terrorists blow up my office.

You really think you can persuade people to vote for Donald Trump by pretending that a guy who changed his whole life plan to join the military after 9/11 cares less about it than Trump? Were it me, I wouldn't be bragging about writing something this obviously self-discrediting just to try to help Trump win the nomination, then disclaiming the whole point of the ad, but I get that you have bills to pay.

Nov 29, 2022 14 tweets 5 min read
It says a lot - none good - that you see your movement as one that requires people to renounce everything they ever believed in & every principle they ever held; to don moral blinders as to every ally vs one man, & to bury one's qualms as to means, tactics, laws, norms & truth. If you're with the party that's been at war with the Constitution for a century & sees it as a musty relic of old white dudes, you're not actually interested in the Constitution as anything but a slogan with no content & no constraint on raw power.
Nov 15, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
LOL Because we don't strip pensions from military veterans over their political speech?
Nov 15, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
I grant that Lake has some genuine talent (which she squandered), but if they were exceptional candidates, they'd have won in a typically red state with a R legislature, R governors for over a decade, in a midterm with an unpopular D POTUS & a bad economy. Doug Ducey would have won those races. Mark Brnovich would have won those races. Lake & Blake lost winnable races because they were bad candidates. If the dogs won't eat the dog food, don't blame the dogs.
Nov 13, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
So, you're ready to declare the Trump GOP dead? Or you want to bury the DeSantis/Abbott/Kemp/Youngkin model, bring on more of the Masters/Oz/Mastriano model? Those are the choices. There are many fascinating questions about what happens if the GOP doesn't pick Trump in 2016, but you can't wallow in the past. That's the road not taken. The question is where you go on the choices of today, not the choices of six years ago. Image
Oct 29, 2022 34 tweets 6 min read
In Hauppauge for the DeSantis rally for Zeldin. Line to get in here is bonkers. Law enforcement supporters of Zeldin well represented here.
Sep 28, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
1. So, @TheTattooedProf - who blocked me after somebody else cited my work in a thread - has sought to pick a fight with me via screenshotting part of my thread. This is sadly characteristic of how lefty "Twitterstorians" operate. 2. Notice: the argument is all straw-man from the outset: at no time have I claimed "that the US was an antislavery nation from the Revolution forward" or that the Constitution was "abolitionist." So far as I know, Ron DeSantis (about whom this started) has not said that either.
Sep 28, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
DeSantis is right.

World's 1st:

-Anti-slavery society: Philadelphia, 1775
-Constitution banning slavery: Vermont, 1777
-Legislative ban on slavery: Pennsylvania, 1780.

There was only a need for a *compromise* bc 5 of the first 13 states banned slavery between 1780 & 1784. Parliament banned slavery in 1833, half a century *after* UK lost the Revolution - 50 years after bans in in VT, PA, MA, NH, CT, & RI, over 40 years after Congress banned in the Northwest Territory, & 30 years after NY & NJ banned. Popular abolition movement started here 1st.
Aug 19, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
People who believe in nothing - such as @JimSwiftDC - live in a constant state of bafflement as to why people like me would not support a political party that aims at the destruction of everything I believe in - not just policy but the American system. overtime.thebulwark.com/p/shut-down-th… And for what? His example is Maryland. But *Democrats* don't believe that Dan Cox is a dangerous person who does things they would never do in the same shoes. If they believed that, they wouldn't have spent 50 times as much money on his ads as he did. nbcnews.com/meet-the-press…
Aug 19, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
It was not a hard call, and if you think it was responsible for the media to conceal important facts from the voters during an election, you really have no business in journalism. I don't think the attempted suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, by itself, cost Trump the election. I do think the people who suppressed it for the greater good of beating Trump were irresponsible & short-sighted.
Aug 9, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Here's the thing: when you don't have the facts, it's foolhardy to get over your skis being certain about any of this...but it's also entirely rational to fall back on your priors about the people, institutions, & incentives in play. One of those priors is Trump being shady, but another is the known record of FBI misconduct in getting warrants against him under the last D POTUS, which can't be dismissed as "old news" in this context.
Jul 8, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
This is how people talk themselves into violence. Imagine tweeting this the morning after a major world leader was assassinated, about a guy who had an armed assassin arrested outside his house last month. Another example of how people talk themselves into supporting mob violence, riots, & assassinations
Jun 28, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
We lived with the Supreme Court pushing the culture to the left for decades. It pushes the culture to the right for two weeks, & progressives are screaming for Court-packing, radical restructuring, jurisdiction-stripping, etc. Incapable of accepting the legitimacy of ever losing. The lesson, as always: progressives will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever accept the legitimacy of any system or institution in which they don't win all the time.
Jun 24, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Today in Democrats against the legitimacy of American elections. Legitimacy. Norms.