Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

How did I not know about Sci-Hub before last week? It's the most useful reporting tool I've discovered in ages, maybe ever — PolitiTweet.org

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@AthertonKD who is distancing themselves from him — PolitiTweet.org

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This stuff is poisonous to a democracy. *Poisonous.* https://t.co/H0quSqV4b6 https://t.co/o9Ig7a5hXh — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course I wrote this entire piece, but @ezraklein got it right in a tweet https://t.co/Tpi0NyHaQL — PolitiTweet.org

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The insurrectionists are winning https://t.co/suYrGgXIxa — PolitiTweet.org

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It's really a bit much for Kevin McCarthy to argue against impeachment on grounds that it's divisive when he just voted to overturn Biden's victory — PolitiTweet.org

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"It's a bit much to hear that these people might not be trying to blow up our government and kill us if we just weren't so mean to them." — @RepRaskin — PolitiTweet.org

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@JewishWonk @LahavHarkov i am so sorry to hear that — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling @zachwehrwein this is all poisonous because it comes at the expense of a positive agenda and cogent ideology that can be used in support of actually moving public opinion in a better direction — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: Fresh weeds: "Will the GOP be Q Pilled or Coup Pilled?" I think the insurrectionaries are the future of the party, but m… — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling this needs to be recognized more widely imo — PolitiTweet.org

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@cjane87 @AdamSerwer @mattyglesias I was reacting to the point about this being a "generically Republican" crowd. I suppose one could argue that this what it is to be "generically Republican" now, but I think there was a heavier-than-normal presence of very explicitly racist people — and that matters. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cjane87 @AdamSerwer @mattyglesias I would also add that the Confederate flags, "Six Million Wasn't Enough" shirts, presence of white nationalist militias, and reports of repeated uses of the n-word against Capitol Police officers are pretty strong evidence for the racism thesis — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonfasman: Exactly right. When the justification for gun ownership shifted from self/home defense to defense against "tyranny"--which i… — PolitiTweet.org

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@rorynotsorry I used to go to the shooting range a lot, I even got signed up for an NRA membership at one point at one of these conservative events. This is all coming from direct personal experience with this world. — PolitiTweet.org

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It turns out that the cultural struggle over gun ownership has given rise to a new cultural identity, in which the argument against gun control has become an argument *for* contemplating insurrectionary violence. As we saw last week, that is a problem independent of gun policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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For a long time, the gun issue has been cast as a policy problem, centering on the need for things background checks. The culture war over guns is described as an impediment to good policy. This frame is right, but incomplete. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is explicitly linked to Democratic rule and policies, especially related to guns. I get at this a little in this piece, specifically in rhetoric from Sharron Angle and Don Young https://t.co/HLoLXc3zFg — PolitiTweet.org

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If you've been to a major conservative movement event, or even just spent time following right-leaning media, you see this idea is omnipresent. This Jefferson quote is popular: "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I think we're underplaying in the post-riot analysis: the degree to which Second Amendment ideology, the idea that the people should be constantly be prepared to use force to overthrow the state, created the conditions for this uprising — PolitiTweet.org

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@YousefMunayyer trying to imagine these dudes going through qalandia every morning for work — PolitiTweet.org

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Extremely healthy country — PolitiTweet.org

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@tweetsintheME @DavidAstinWalsh The first time I went there, it was because a local historian in Bavaria was doing a study the Jews in the area at the end of the Holocaust. My grandfather was one of them, escaping a death match and hiding in this small town, so he asked our family over to talk about it publicly — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman I feel like that’s a label that would have gotten really prominent if you had coined it in 2008 — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman A man after my own heart — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman I recently had an argument with a friend about how superhero fiction is good because it serves a kind of MacIntyre-esque shared moral language that allows for a productive discussion of virtue, you would have liked it — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman https://t.co/vNZ7eyq3nN — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/iVQj3D4Zym — PolitiTweet.org

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This Mo Brooks press release is a work of art https://t.co/bL0SblN1hj — PolitiTweet.org

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The disconnect between Trump's bog-standard anti-immigration speech right now and the political crisis swirling around him is staggering — PolitiTweet.org