Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@russiancosmist @realchrisrufo @docMJP Enjoy the fruits of your approach: the Biden presidency, the Pelosi House, and the Democratic Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattbilinsky @realchrisrufo @docMJP Substantively, I both agree and disagree with him on many things. It is the frequent and wrongheaded attacks on his honor that I find more revealing about his critics than him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@russiancosmist @realchrisrufo @docMJP To win voters like me in the future your coalition should put someone at the top of the ticket who isn't unusually depraved and flagrantly, even gleefully immoral. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @docMJP French refuses to compromise his values for political gain. It is an implicit rebuke to those who do so, and confronting that implicit rebuke head on is so uncomfortable that many instead convince themselves that French is bad, so as to avoid the hard self-examination. — PolitiTweet.org

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@docMJP Trump didn't hide or apologize for his sins, he reveled in them publicly and aggrandized himself by bragging about them. It's moral blindness to not see his unusually bankrupt character. — PolitiTweet.org

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@docMJP Going on Howard Stern's radio show and telling the shock jock that it's okay to call your daughter "a piece of ass" is not mere "personal sexual morality." It is a public display of immorality, which is what separates Trump from the typical cheating politician: — PolitiTweet.org

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@russiancosmist @realchrisrufo @docMJP No, you're conflating contempt for a politician with contempt for the people who voted for him. Stop adopting the mindset of a sycophant follower. Contempt for Trump is contempt for Trump, and it is deserved, because he is a moral degenerate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@docMJP I'd say telling a shock jock that he can call your daughter "a piece of ass," saying you have "sex" in common with her, and bragging that you grab women by their genitals is rather extreme behavior, not typical elite behavior. — PolitiTweet.org

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Real story or fake story? https://t.co/yCsOBx1ZJO — PolitiTweet.org

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@docMJP French is asserting that supporting a sexual anarchist like Trump as president is incompatible with opposing sexual anarchy. That seems like a plausible claim, but you treat it as a ridiculous one. Why? — PolitiTweet.org

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What actually happened is that the Trump coalition organized itself around a moral reprobate and is suffering various inevitable consequences as a result of utterly abandoning the notion of character as an important quality in a president. — PolitiTweet.org

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Odd to operate from the premise that Donald Trump's moral legitimacy turns in any significant way not on his flagrantly violating so many literal Commandments and laws and widely held moral standards, but on what David French says. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is great, with some excellent defenses of important academic values from Eisgruber. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersuderman He can rap and control the maestro at the same time — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey No, I've asked what would satisfy you so that I know if it's worth the effort of gathering evidence or if, on the other hand, nothing, or nothing it's possible to gather, would satisfy you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick @ijbailey @BeezyManzell That depends. The answer in California and Mississippi are different, for example. And the identity of the next president, an unknown at the moment, will influence the answer at the federal level. To me, the best way to proceed post-Trump is with uncertainty about the answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick @ijbailey @BeezyManzell Yes. I judged Donald Trump to be the biggest threat during his tenure and wrote about him more than any other topic. I also think I perceive the threat from the left more clearly than many on the left. Of course, they disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @BeezyManzell I sincerely hope for a day when the left gets its act together and stops its illiberal excesses so I never have to talk about them again and can focus exclusively on other threats. Until then, I'll be paying attention to illiberalism on the left and the right. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BeezyManzell @ijbailey Yep. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: "these incidents never happen...this a figment of your imagination... it's just grumpy middle aged people complaining ab… — PolitiTweet.org

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@m34653 Jonathan Rauch is neither right wing nor in a right wing bubble. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TruthsandLies14 @ijbailey This surpasses my minimum threshold https://t.co/lWUje7EzvA And I've seen much more in intervening years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GeofftheJohnson Geoff, *you work at a Koch funded entity.* https://t.co/1QKbF4lNVu Lol. — PolitiTweet.org

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@yarbsalocin @TruthsandLies14 @ijbailey Here is a partial accounting https://t.co/lWUje7EzvA — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I'd still like you to articulate the minimum threshold evidence you'd accept — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey If you think the Evergreen story is bullshit you should watch the video of the students who held their president against his will and wouldn't allow him to use the bathroom. — PolitiTweet.org

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I find Victor Davis Hanson's explanation of why he left National Review so striking in its ignorance of National Review's actual coverage of the Covington Catholic mess. — PolitiTweet.org

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I've started to notice the similarities between the attacks on George Soros funded entities one sees in Hungary and the attacks on Koch Foundation funded entities one sees in the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jonathan Rauch argues that digital platforms could help us to seek truth together but are under attack from two adversarial forces: troll culture and a culture of enforced conformity and ideological blacklisting, sometimes called "cancel culture." Both require pushback. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @prof_gabriele @JonHaidt (Also, note the distinction between what I actually write and your recapitulation. Subtle but different! Amazing how often this happens with you.) — PolitiTweet.org