Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This debate is fine? It strikes me as the kind of generic partisan back-and-forth we had before the world melted down, which makes it feel irrelevant — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

WE DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT PAY-FORS WHEN INTEREST RATES ARE AT ZERO — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Pence's arguments on the virus are no more substantively defensible than Trump's, but they're better because the person offering them doesn't come across as unhinged — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It's so weird to watch a debates where candidates offer actual arguments in full sentences — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Cannot stress enough how stupid it is that this is happening a) in person at all, b) with candidates unmasked, and c) with a live audience — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It me, the writer who spends as much time working on the opening 500 words as the next 1800 combined — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Trump, ever the brilliant strategist, is distracting us from his politically disastrous Covid diagnosis by announcing a wildly unpopular new position on Covid relief — PolitiTweet.org

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"More Republicans were concerned about Ebola during Obama’s presidency than they were about COVID-19 under Trump" https://t.co/Aa1KtuVrzR — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jbouie it does not checkmate the libs to point out that, in a time of non-sorted parties in which the GOP hadn't just spent years blowing up the system, FDR faced internal Dem resistance to court packing — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@jbouie What's remarkable about this piece is that there's no actual argument. It's just an assertion that this would destroy "our settlement," whatever that is, and quotes from the New Deal era about a different plan proposed under different conditions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to demonstrate this conclusively, but I think a big difference between 2016 and 2020 is that Trump already won so liberals are unable to be complacent about the prospect of him winning again — PolitiTweet.org

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@RhetoricPJ you too friend, as well as anyone can be under these conditions — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@RhetoricPJ I really like the Bonilla-Silva book, am not familiar with the others. Will take a look! — PolitiTweet.org

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It fits nicely with an interesting conversation I just had with @RuleandRuin, who pointed out that the pandemic has exposed both 1) that the conservative critique of liberalism has real validity and 2) that the conservative movement is a disaster as a governing institution — PolitiTweet.org

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@RhetoricPJ What are your faves? — PolitiTweet.org

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This in particular is an argument that people like me —  empirically-minded defenders of new social movements on identity issues — needs to take seriously https://t.co/MzsspiKtI7 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Today's @DouthatNYT column is great — not in the sense that I agree with all of it, but in the way it showcases the power of intelligent conservative critiques in exposing left-liberal blindspots https://t.co/CHABcZglfD — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeterBeinart @TheAtlantic @nytopinion ahhh congrats!! — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidfucillo Another reason not to vote for the guy most famous for extreme corruption — PolitiTweet.org

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More or less every day, I read an article about a beloved local restaurant closing down permanently or a bar hosting a super-spreader event. I don't know what it's like to not be furious about this on a constant basis. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I think this is the thing about the federal response to the pandemic, among its many failures, that makes me angriest. The immense economic suffering — and a good chunk of disease spread! — could be easily addressed by simply giving money to service workers. Congress refuses. — PolitiTweet.org

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I need a YIMBY guide to the DC city council at-large race — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Technically, dexamethasone isn't prescribed for the purpose of fever reduction, so Conley isn't "lying" exactly. But this of disregard for the truth, deception though technical fudging and omission, makes it really hard to trust Trump's medical staff. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

3. If that's the case, Trump could take a turn for the worse after being discharged. But that was always a possibility. What's more significant here is the deception on Conley's part. It would have been easy to say "he doesn't have a fever but that may be masked." He didn't. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

2. Dexamethasone is well known to be a medication that can mask fevers  — see here https://t.co/YB3sWpXGfY. So it's actually quite possible that the president would still have a fever were it not for the aggressive treatment regimen. https://t.co/o9F8p2v6Ab — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

1. This might seem like a small mistake in Conley's briefing, but it's actually very significant — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Conley's interpretation of HIPAA seems to be "I can disclose the good results but not the bad ones" — PolitiTweet.org

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@jim_newell yep this is it — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I don't have anything funny or clever to say about this, it's genuinely terrifying — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@EmmaMAshford @eborghard congrats!!! — PolitiTweet.org