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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
And yes, the Hebrew plural is obviously "mezuzot." I'm aware, just find the English-Hebrew mashup amusing. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
One of our mezuzahs keeps falling off, prompting @phylliskessel to declare that "gravity is anti-Semitic" — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
My tl;dr from these two books is that the Vietnam war was a broad-based social catastrophe for America in ways in that many Americans still don't fully understand — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@egavactip I'm reading both at once for a piece on the future prospects of political violence in the US, it's very striking — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@AlvinBTilleryJr That's amazing! Your article (and @jennieci's) sound great. As I said on another thread, I'd love to read it when I'm not so busy covering <gestures at breakdown of democratic political institutions> — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
"Bringing the War Home" is a very interesting history comparing the violence of the Weatherman and Red Army Faction in the 1970s, in part inspired by Vietnam. "Bring the War Home" is @kathleen_belew's history of the rise of "white power" movement, influenced by Vietnam vets. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
@seanilling In all seriousness this looks really good, one of those things I'd read if there was time for anything but baby care and omnishambles coverage — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
"Siri, show me a journal article engineered in a lab to troll the modern American right" https://t.co/YulB9Kj2pK — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
16. Coda II: this statement from Politico's EIC makes it worse, not better. The logical and evidentiary flaws in the newsletter were glaring and obvious; if it was "very closely edited," then the editorial process failed. https://t.co/FNa8UlSO4S https://t.co/QutNRl8zQr — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
You'd think this is a paraphrase. Incredibly, it is not. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
15. Coda: there is an argument that Playbook is helping its more left-leaning readers understand the right better by publishing this. That's false, for reasons @AsteadWesley, @AdamSerwer, and @cjane87 explain here: https://t.co/sPqKvsSLv8 — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
14. So the real problem with today's Playbook isn't Ben Shapiro's identity. It's that the piece itself is poorly reasoned and outright dishonesty in a way that was predictable given his past work — and that no editor fixed the piece. It's just below decent journalistic standards. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
13. But this is Shapiro's shtick. Out of one side of his mouth, he positions himself as a high-minded intellectual. Out of the other side, he offers up the most divisive conservative red meat imaginable. Some examples I compiled a bit ago: https://t.co/6RL1r3HK6v — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
12. Here's the last substantive section, which is really a con. Shapiro is arguing for "neutral standards" to "unite the country" while quite literally arguing for division — that Republicans are justified in seeing Democrats as evil and opposing impeachment to spite them. https://t.co/Y6RnUMjJpK — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
11. Raskin's objections were pro forma and without support from a Senate member, so they didn't trigger debate. And the reputable First Amendment lawyers I've spoken to say there is a real case that Trump did incitement; Shapiro links out to a piece by Andy McCarthy, a crank. https://t.co/ccWiLTc1mm — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
10. Now, here's the next section. Virtually every claim in this is either dishonest or false. In 2018, Abrams didn't try to overturn the election, telling supporters that "the law currently allows no further viable remedy" for an election she felt (justifiably!) was unfair. https://t.co/2jutpC2bsJ — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
9. These were targeted actions against specific groups, not the entire Republican party. And yet Shapiro sees this evidence of a conspiracy to repress the entire GOP! So you see the real argument here: it's not just impeachment, but any consequences, that are illegitimate. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
8. Shapiro's "evidence" for this claim that Democrats want to "repress" the GOP? That corporations — not Democrats, *corporations* — punished outlets and politicians who either tolerated violent rhetoric or encouraged the election fraud delusion. https://t.co/RTsvy17mQg — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
7. This is a dodge. It positions the argument that the GOP bears some responsibility is necessarily unreasonable and evil. That a party that made Trump its leader and backed him for four years is axiomatically innocent, and saying otherwise is the real problem. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
6. Next, Shapiro argues that Democrats want to blame all Republicans and Trump voters for the riot — and will use this as a pretext for "repression" for conservatives everywhere. https://t.co/rRfPZdCWXw — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
5. Of course they'd say that — they're Democrats! You can debate the validity of these claims, but that says nothing about the purpose of pursuing impeachment. There's just no real connection between Shapiro's argument and the evidence offered for it. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
4. The problem goes deeper than that. The evidence that Shapiro uses to argue that Republicans are justified is that Democrats and liberal commentators have argued that the Capitol Hill riot vindicates their positions on *issues other than impeachment* https://t.co/1XHhHa4LAI — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
3. This logic has a glaring logical flaw: as @jonathanchait points out, Democrats couldn't use impeachment to tie Republicans to Trump *if they voted for it* https://t.co/DPoeiX167z — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
2. Shapiro's core argument is that House Republicans opposed impeachment because they saw it as a Democratic plot to undermine them — and, moreover, that they were right (or at least justified) in thinking that. https://t.co/gAo0xLSTDB — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
1. The problem with the Ben Shapiro Playbook isn't primarily the author. It's that the *content* of the piece is bad, in a way that was eminently predictable given the author. I'm going to go through the entire piece and explain why. — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
RT @jbouie: i think that as a general rule you aren’t allowed to complain about political division if you spent years arguing that the firs… — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
People who insist that the Capitol Hill rioters must be lower-class really need to read more of the historical research on riots https://t.co/uBFM0crVJb — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Source: this fascinating paper on the history and current state of research on riots, focusing on why governments choose to crack down or let them happen https://t.co/R2ZsJ4kMeA — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
Everything old is new again https://t.co/61gsnmeczM — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp
The second impeachment is pretty much a continuation of the first. The first time, Trump was impeached for attempting to tamper with the integrity of our electoral process. The second time, he was impeached for actually doing it. — PolitiTweet.org
