Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DodgsonCharlie @orzelc YEP — PolitiTweet.org

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RBG, a great Jewish-American, dying as the Jewish New Year begins - an event that sets off a chain of events with potentially catastrophic consequences. I can’t process this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrislhayes credit to @jbouie, who has been making this argument for years now — PolitiTweet.org

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Spent some time this week looking at how conservative media is talking about the election — and I found a really troubling trend https://t.co/aRDlpiMFRM — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman Some kind of resolution as to the "correct" vote count accepted by both sides, rendering the compromise of 1877 irrelevant — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman Also it didn't work then! — PolitiTweet.org

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@TanaGaneva "The abuse, first reported by Tana Ganeva for Reason," It's really not that hard. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AvishayBSG To be fair they won't either — PolitiTweet.org

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The great thing about Rosh Hashanah beginning tonight is that we Jews get to end this awful year way earlier than the rest of you. Good riddance to 5780! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: I guess nobody cares about reality anymore but the whole point of @nhannahjones’ essay was an explication of how she foun… — PolitiTweet.org

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The cancel culture is coming from inside the White House — PolitiTweet.org

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A dangerous cycle: 1. Trump claims he can't lose a fair election 2. Democrats plan for what happens if he acts on this rhetoric post-election 3. Right-wing media claims said planning is an incipient coup 4. Trump amplifies what he sees on Fox, cycle kicks off again — PolitiTweet.org

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Right-wing media outlets are priming their audiences to see a Biden victory as a coup. This stuff is really scary. https://t.co/cEK1DkKqLL — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop This is the most you series of tweets I could imagine absent a French New Wave reference — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @mattyglesias Yes, this is a great way of describing what I was thinking here — PolitiTweet.org

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@Emptyset09 this is what gets me too — PolitiTweet.org

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If Ilhan Omar said that Israel was the Jews' true country and ran an ad featuring a cartoon of Sheldon Adelson pulling Trump's strings, people would be livid. The Discourse would be consumed by this for days. Trump actually does it and it barely gets a peep. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Ilhan Omar said that Israel was the Jews' true country and ran an ad featuring a cartoon of Sheldon Adelson pulling Trump's strings, people would be livid. Trump does the same things and it barely gets a peep. — PolitiTweet.org

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There sure is a lot of anti-Semitism coming from Trump and his supporters today https://t.co/mYjNddOzmh — PolitiTweet.org

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@deonteleologist fucking overlapping consensus, how does it work — PolitiTweet.org

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Lotta people debating about "legitimacy" on this website would do well to pay closer attentions to the distinctions drawn here (from Samuel Freeman's invaluable book on Rawls) https://t.co/GG9BO0vTKB — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryanlcooper I've done a similar 180. I think what really did it for me were the studies on Fox News' effect on electoral outcomes — they're really high-quality research and find absolutely huge effects — PolitiTweet.org

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Again: I do not think these problems are devastating for the entire political project. But no movement is perfect, and self-criticism is an important and healthy part of politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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And the third is demonization. I stand by my claims that the threat from "cancel culture" has been radically overblown, but its critics are correct that there's a worrying tendency to dismiss people as irredeemable for venial sins —  and to offer few options for forgiveness. — PolitiTweet.org

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The second, relatedly, is intellectual insularity. Socialist and conservative critics often raise genuinely sharp critiques of liberal politics — particularly relating to class, credentialism and history — that don't get the serious consideration they deserve. — PolitiTweet.org

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The first is anti-rationalism on identity issues. Sometimes, debates over unsettled empirical questions — would defunding police increase crime? why does Trump seem to be gaining votes among Latinos? — are themselves declared illegitimate or out-of-bounds. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's important to criticize ideas you generally agree with, and I don't think I do it enough. So I want to thread three brief points about what I see as problems in left-liberal discourse today. Not insuperable or fatal problems, but problems nonetheless. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes I think about getting my grandfather's number tattooed on my arm, a constant reminder both to me and the world of what happened. This makes me more likely to do it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshor @Noahpinion strong agree — this has been the fundamental premise of my writing/thinking on this topic since 2016. the similarities are far more revealing than the differences. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dandrezner i am sorry to say i have not but it's nice to hear that a random thought i tweeted actually has real empirical foundation! — PolitiTweet.org