Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@sunraysunray sorry about your ankle, but i love me some ga cohen — PolitiTweet.org

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@zeynep @DKThomp @NathanJRobinson No argument here! But that graf, which I did not endorse, is really incidental to the core argument of the piece, which I largely do — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamSerwer: The attempt to cast the inability of bosses to fire workers on the basis of sexuality or gender identity as a win for *capi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKThomp @NathanJRobinson That's why i said "basically" in the original tweet — I thought that section of the Robinson piece was quite weak — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this @NathanJRobinson is basically right-on. The conclusion in particular is spot-on https://t.co/yLEvag5FBt https://t.co/G4uOGrSLzE — PolitiTweet.org

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I had kind of forgotten what it felt like to get some surprising, unambiguously good news — PolitiTweet.org

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@RadioFreeTom Here's the outfit, it's a broad international poll of perceptions of democracy https://t.co/wu5VF1r45b — PolitiTweet.org

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The same survey found that 78 percent of Hungarians believe that living in a democracy is important, one of the largest "democratic deficits" in the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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New data finds that only 36 percent of Hungarians believe they live in a democracy — meaning that Orbán's Western defenders are actually aligned with a *minority* of Hungarians https://t.co/vjWp4rzN07 — PolitiTweet.org

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@CasMudde the law, in all its majesty, etc etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman No, but it sounds like something I’d like! — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s very interesting that religious conservatives and the remains of the New Atheist movement have entered into a de facto alliance against “wokeness” — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidsess That’s the meaning when religious reactionaries say it. But a lot of the anti-PC types grew out of the New Atheist movement... — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to say this over and over again without sounding hacky, but the fact that Donald Trump is extremely bad at being president is a brute fact warping all of our politics https://t.co/Z09yEJcu0t — PolitiTweet.org

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@YousefMunayyer this is a hate crime — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cjane87: We didn’t get here because Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed. We got here because a police officer slowly smothered a man to death whi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomgara i'm sorry, that's really shit news. hope you find a good gig elsewhere! — PolitiTweet.org

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I interview a lot of very smart people for my job. @DrPhilGoff, who I just had the pleasure of speaking with, is one of only a handful who have really blown me away — causing me to rethink some basic ideas in a profound way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Haleaziz ahhhh congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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@imillhiser Personally I found the trick was to make sure you to use the Egregious Op-Ed sword oil — PolitiTweet.org

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The Obelisk of Wokeness was, if I recall correctly, a particularly difficult Witcher 3 quest — PolitiTweet.org

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If there's one thing Donald Trump is famous for, it's being a stickler for "hard facts" https://t.co/jeEGC4UsDy — PolitiTweet.org

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What a smart piece by @amandataub https://t.co/wFSnyZhnXG — PolitiTweet.org

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8. Coda: None of this should be taken to minimize the wrong done to David Shor. It's a serious injustice and the people responsible owe him an apology. But Chait is trying to fit this deplorable incident into a pat ideological frame — liberals v. SJWs — that simply doesn't fit. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig I think liberalism has done a really good job domesticating fights over some things — notably religion. And I mean actually doing it, to the point where people really are debating from inside liberalism. It hasn't done as a good a job with other things, most notably race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig I see it as more of a strength than fraudulent — liberalism is very good at adapting to new information and evidence — but I take the point in principle. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. So far, none of our new social justice movement has made anti-democratic or illiberal demands of state power. They are operating *inside the context of liberalism,* trying to push its discourse norms in a particular direction. The ideas are debatable — but not illiberal. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. New social justice movements are pushing this argument in new directions. Sometimes people influenced by these ideas will make mistakes; so, too, did old guard liberals who went too far in the other direction — excluding radical ideas from mainstream discourse. — PolitiTweet.org

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5. This is a question both for states and for non-state institutions like newspapers and magazines. There isn't an obvious answer to them; it's the sort of thing that liberal political philosophers have debated endlessly for the past few decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Once you understand this point, the central contention of the essay — there's a rising threat of left-wing illiberalism! — vanishes. The actual debate is an internally liberal one: how do we understand the limits of free speech and free expression? Where do we draw the lines? — PolitiTweet.org