Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@michaelbd In my thinking, the election is a stress test of what's clearly a competitive authoritarian system — just how well has Orbán designed it? I have my theories but, as you say, we'll find out soon enough. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@michaelbd That's not how I read this piece (cf, these grafs), which seems to be an exercise in "what happens if" the system isn't as rigged as people fear. And that's certainly not enough to establish a new united progressive CW that shifted in response to polls! https://t.co/kXVkNIKgGP — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@michaelbd Who has argued that? I haven't seen anyone argue that the new polling numbers indicate that the election will be anything resembling fair — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@ntdPhD Since he's currently on a fellowship in Budapest, I would be very surprised if he's not a guest on Tucker this week — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I've spent the past three years writing about growing affinities between the American right and the Orbán regime and he...just...tweeted it out https://t.co/6ljQ01TxyP — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Tucker broadcasting from Budapest seems like it's a giant prank on me, it confirms my priors far too well to be real — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @HC_Richardson: Three years ago, @zackbeauchamp outlined how Hungary lost democracy and noted that Trump and the Republican Party were u… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Here's the article's conclusion, on the lessons the American right should take from Portuguese strongman Antonio Salazar https://t.co/UfTmhauzgg — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Here's an article from a pro-Trump journal more-or-less explicitly calling for an authoritarian coup in America https://t.co/ZygjGdKyrx — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Here's why folks like Tucker are enamored with Orbán, a strongman who has torn Hungarian democracy apart https://t.co/4tOmA1DIsb — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @AmarAmarasingam: ISIS supporters creating accounts on Pro-Trump platform GETTR “Such material is placing GETTR in the awkward position… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @SaskiaBrech: Excellent analysis by @zackbeauchamp. "In countries where democracy is at real risk of collapse or even outright defeate… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"The Left, and the US media, constantly condemn Viktor Orban for anti-Semitism because he dares to call out Soros the Destroyer." hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm https://t.co/MhRTaqCO34 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @RoKhanna: A well written piece by ⁦@zackbeauchamp⁩, echoing the thinking of our founders, arguing that the biggest challenges to our mu… — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@ConorPWilliams there are a number of people who this could be about, but i have my guesses! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@MattZeitlin it's not offensive exactly, it's just very weird — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The polarization of Israel politics continues apace. Democrats are becoming more critical of the Occupation while Republicans are turning into right-wing one staters — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@EmmaMAshford Oh this is wonderful, now I can read your essay against their essay and write a review essay of them both in the popular press. The cycle of intellectual life! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@deonteleologist i've realized that so much of modern antiliberalism on the left is not so much actual opposition to liberalism so much as 1) opposition to neoliberalism combined with 2) a preening need to position oneself as some kind of radical — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@lionel_trolling conceptual moldbug: the overlap between anti-wokeness and neoreaction in this essay i will — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Two of the leading media figures on the Christian right https://t.co/Yiq5RjwWFj — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Easily the funniest headline of the day https://t.co/ofPFzl4fsS — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

"In this sense, China has very little influence over the future of democracy globally. The key battles are happening not in the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait, but in the legislatures of New Delhi and Washington." https://t.co/2hDQeJ1Uhi — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I wrote about why Biden’s focus on China on democracy’s enemy is misplaced — and maybe even harmful https://t.co/SLI4dSDNZQ — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@AdamSerwer @jbouie Just did that a few months ago, it's always so satisfying (though it does remind me that there are some clunker BTAS eps that are better skipped) — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@profmusgrave No mention of Arrival, the best movie (IMO) about this? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@deonteleologist what about? — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@NormOrnstein I have really fond memories of hanging out with Matt in LA during the USC Round Robin, when he hanging out with us high schoolers still on the GDS team. We got lost because he decided that driving towards "tall buildings" was a good navigation strategy, it was extremely funny. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@Aelkus @HayesBrown yes. i have preferences about fiction — i really like fantasy novels with black-and-white morality — that are in tension with some of my political commitments. and it doesn't bother me at all! that's not what fiction is for! — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@Aelkus I feel like this complaint, which was funny when @fordm made it as a joke years ago, has now morphed into an annoying way of people imposing their gripes about real-life billionaires onto a fictional universe — PolitiTweet.org