Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Apple News users can get a sneak peak of my piece on what's happened to the American Jewish community in the year after PIttsburgh https://t.co/Gd7O0t9yb1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidKlion As far as amazingly terrible adaptations of classic fighting games go, the Mortal Kombat movie is clearly superior https://t.co/zeJZGTNEnv — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's what Mayor Pete said when I asked him about the rising left in March, and here's his attack on said left from the October debate https://t.co/9WaTJzIgK8 — PolitiTweet.org

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When I interviewed him in late March, he framed himself as a hyper-partisan, Warrenesque lefty who described the "tension between capitalism and democracy" as "the biggest challenge for America right now." Quite a turn from this towards DLC 2.0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin @normative "The Paul Ryan story" — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve been told there are people who like when summer ends and colder seasons begin. The fact that the sun is setting when I’m leaving the office is all the proof I need that these people are deeply mistaken. — PolitiTweet.org

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These thoughts inspired by @cjane87's take today https://t.co/RjdMbP8Zmj — PolitiTweet.org

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Betos, ranked: 1. 90s Skater Punk Beto 2. Taking Ted Cruz Down A Peg Beto 3. Emo Gen X Blogger Livestream Beto 4. Cringeworthy Vanity Fair "Born To Be In It, Man" Beto ... 165. Threatening The 1st Amendment Slash Scaring Conservatives Into Lining Up Behind Trump Beto — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the annoying things about being into games is that a lot of the content that's produced about them are YouTube or Twitch videos. YouTube is bad, articles that you can read are good. — PolitiTweet.org

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I know everyone loves this photo but it's actually a horrifying image of a creature about confronting imminent mortality, as the marmot was brutally mauled shortly afterwards https://t.co/ZIKaOLYxaU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ShahannaMB: Here is my letter to the editor of @jdforward. I am demanding an apology and a retraction. https://t.co/bez41eXNBv — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @HeerJeet it's almost like class voting has declined across western nations, reflecting a deep structural shift in the way people understand their political identity and thus vote — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie I really enjoyed the experiments in Chomskyite anarcho-syndicalism, John Roemer's coupon socialism, and Plato's system of rule by philosopher king elevated based on talent from a militant auxiliary — PolitiTweet.org

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@NoahCRothman @dylanmatt That's not under dispute. The issue, as @rortybomb points out, is that you are using the success of China and India as a brief against mixed economies ("regulatory capitalism, publicly owned enterprises, and Keynesian economic prescriptions") when in fact they are mixed economies — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt @NoahCRothman China, for example, transitioned from a command economy to a mixed economy — as any China observer will happily tell you https://t.co/1LHXDwd5TQ https://t.co/S6ZPPpGNHH — PolitiTweet.org

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@NoahCRothman Noah, in all seriousness — do you know what a mixed economy is? — PolitiTweet.org

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@rortybomb remember when deng famously eliminated every single one of china's state-owned enterprises, that's definitely a thing that happened — PolitiTweet.org

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If this is the best case that can be mounted for capitalism, then it's well and truly doomed. The amount of ignorance in this graf alone is staggering https://t.co/Xbfp2OnaY7 https://t.co/eFivPMZjr7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Canada: first past the post, multi-party but two major centrist parties dominant, coalition governments nearly unthinkable Israel: proportional representation, wild number of parties with power shifting around a lot, balance of power determined entirely by coalition negotiations — PolitiTweet.org

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The last two foreign elections I've followed really closely have been in Canada and Israel, two countries with parliamentary systems that operate in diametrically opposed ways — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of what makes this moment interesting is that we can all argue for our ideas while also making judgment calls about which of the emergent factions best advance our overall goals. One thing Bill Clinton did get right is that line about "the art of the possible." — PolitiTweet.org

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I recognize that my particular answer to this moment — identity politics-inflected social democracy (UBI, codetermination, radical criminal justice reform) and extreme cosmopolitanism (open borders for migration and trade) — has basically no takers in actual politics. That's fine — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of what makes this moment interesting is that we can all argue for our ideas while also making judgment calls about which of the emergent factions best advance your overall goals. One thing Bill Clinton did get right is that line about "the art of the possible." — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I recognize that my particular answer to this moment —domestic social democracy (UBI, codetermination, wealth tax) and extreme cosmopolitanism (open borders for migration and trade) — has basically no takers in actual politics, and that's fine — PolitiTweet.org

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I recognize that my particular answer to this moment domestic social democracy (UBI, codetermination, wealth tax) and extreme cosmopolitanism (open borders for migration and trade) has basically no takers in actual politics, and that's fine — PolitiTweet.org

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There are now extremely interesting debates on both left and right over what comes next, and the results are hardly obvious. But we need to start by acknowledging that it's not the 1990s anymore, and we can never make it that again. — PolitiTweet.org

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Both of these ideas, in different ways, attempted to address problems of the late Cold War period that are just not the defining issues in American politics. The issues now are just different, which is why the defenders of these old ideas seem so out of touch — PolitiTweet.org

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So much of American politics is a dance around the fact that the two dominant ideologies of the 1990s, Third Way liberalism and movement conservatism, no longer make sense as descriptions of our current reality — PolitiTweet.org

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@GavinBade @ne0liberal but i've found that if you get there before 12:15 you're usually OK — PolitiTweet.org

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@GavinBade @ne0liberal oh yeah, the lines are really long — PolitiTweet.org