Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

RT @IChotiner: Kissinger’s journey from despising India because it wouldn’t go along with Pakistan’s ethnic cleansing in what is now Bangla… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BlanksSlate The "BORTLESSSSSSSSSS" theory of criminal conspiracy — PolitiTweet.org

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Having read Taylor's testimony through, it's got to be one of the most damning documents of the entire Trump era. It's proof that the worst case scenario is actually what happened. — PolitiTweet.org

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Everybody knew what was happening. The attempts to lie about it, to say it was about "corruption" in general, are on face laughable. https://t.co/15yXgKcDq4 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: Kind of bad timing for an anonymous tell-all-but-maybe-not book when there's a steady flow of documents and sworn testimon… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty much as crystal clear as quid pro quos get — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu I do know some stuff about the Canadian system, and this take is deeply stupid even setting aside the notion that Americans and Canadians are the same. It ignores (among other things) that Canadian progressives are furious at Trudeau for not implementing electoral reform! — PolitiTweet.org

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The discourse around Trump's lynching comment is too depressing and infuriating to follow. Time to go back to my actual work on <checks notes> violent neo-Nazis — PolitiTweet.org

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@shadihamid I wouldn't put it that way in either the Canadian or Portuguese case. @CasMudde has a good explanation of what's going on there https://t.co/Y8Yr1OV7O8 — PolitiTweet.org

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So far this morning, I've gotten emails accusing me of being an NDP shill and a hack for Hillary Clinton. I'm ideologically quite confused, apparently! — PolitiTweet.org

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@DouthatNYT @tylercowen Sending out review copies? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidKlion @HeerJeet I think the real explanation is she has a book to promote, and was on a podcast to do so and then said something dumb — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHWeissmann In my experience, the amount of emails I get from a campaign is inversely proportional to how well they're doing — PolitiTweet.org

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@besasley my nightmare when doing foreign reporting is coming back and saying something as absurd as this without knowing it — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the sort of thing you think Owns The Libs if you don't understand Canadian politics. One of Liberals' major promises in 2015 was to reform the Canadian electoral system, which many people there find frustratingly non-representative. He broke that promise to win. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is all very stupid, and both parties should be ashamed of themselves https://t.co/mu2K57NS5z — PolitiTweet.org

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@smsaideman Thanks Steve! Means a lot coming from you :) — PolitiTweet.org

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What just happened in Canada’s election — and why it matters https://t.co/5C8bMrBKxi — PolitiTweet.org

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Justin Trudeau and the Liberals win, per CBC projection — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig @IvanThrone "-Ivan" lmao — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonnywakefield @StephanieCarvin the jeb meme never gets old honestly — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone gets owned on Twitter, what makes me special is that my wife is the one doing the owning — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Does anyone know if it’s possible to watch Canadian election returns live on any US channels? Is there a CSPAN licensed to air CBC or something? — PolitiTweet.org

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@dgardner That seems like a theory in search of evidence, especially given the queen's enabling role in the recent prorogation debacle. Either monarchs have purely ceremonial role, in which case they aren't a constraint, or they wield independent power, which threatens democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dgardner But you also find a large number of similarly stable democracies without monarchs. Other things — wealth, geography, dominance of liberal-democratic norms, and the like — seem like the commonality here, not the monarch. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dgardner I disagree with the first half (not the second, there are lots of people who know more than me about most things). Based on what I do know, I think it's pretty much entirely coincidental! — PolitiTweet.org

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@the_caldweller right none of it makes any sense — PolitiTweet.org

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Arguably the most egregious case here is Canada, which is not part of Great Britain but still treats the Queen as its head of state and gives her appointed representative (the Governor-General) a role in coalition formation — PolitiTweet.org

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My most American opinion is that it's totally bizarre that any democracy would want to permit hereditary monarchs even the slightest role in its political system — PolitiTweet.org

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@Yascha_Mounk @mattyglesias Oh yeah, it's just that the original coinage was referring to the phenomenon of pundits writing "Candidate X will lose unless they support my normatively ideal policy agenda" — PolitiTweet.org