Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Did anyone else see Giuliani's eyes get really big and freaky for a second, like Bilbo-trying-to-snatch-the-One-Ring https://t.co/hJSBDZQj0E — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Remarkably short amount of time spent on Trump's request to "find" enough votes to change the election — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KevinWGlass: King https://t.co/NJGLEYBLhq — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Sterling is doing a real service here by explaining the literal nuts-and-bolts of how vote counting works and why the "suitcases full of ballots" thing was always nonsense — PolitiTweet.org

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This element of inflicting personal consequences on enemies by public targeting is one of several important parallels between Trump and Joe McCarthy — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay writers, naming a Trump aide who feels bad "Robert Sinners" is a really heavy handed move — PolitiTweet.org

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A good point https://t.co/wvcgHREBnL — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Rusty Bowers feels like a relic of a conservatism that's long since been dead — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Overarching argument in this hearing is that January 6 was prefigured by Trump actions in November and December 2020 on the state level. All the elements were there: pressuring key decisionmakers to embrace bogus legal theories and forcible incursions into state legislatures. — PolitiTweet.org

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Giuliani, per Bowers: "We've got a lot of theories, but we just don't have the evidence." — PolitiTweet.org

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Rusty Bowers is saying that he wouldn't help Giuliani steal the election because he believes the Constitution is a divinely inspired document. Violating his oath, according to Bowers, would constitute an abandonment of his faith. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The degree of organization and intention behind the plot is really striking — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Barr shivved Trump pretty thoroughly in his deposition, huh — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattChikaonda For example, https://t.co/VVnlOFx7PH — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@DouthatNYT I think it's a lot more than a "few Substack critics," and I didn't say sole or even most significant factor because I don't believe either of those things — PolitiTweet.org

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On the other hand, their opponents were clearly correct that this wouldn't produce illiberal overreach at the political level — at worst, we've seen it lead to bad policies and political strategies. They were also right overstating its dangers would fuel political reaction. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

In hindsight, both sides of the Great Cancel Culture war of 2020 were partially right. One the one hand, the cancel culture critics were right about an ideological-cultural problem in progressive organizations that hampers their effectiveness. Evidence has really built up here. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Basically, it's an argument that the government should be ranking religions by the sincerity of their adherents — and that in order to be deemed sincere, you must take a conservative or literalist view of your faith — PolitiTweet.org

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The more I think about this, the more clearly it emerges that Blackman is arguing for putting any liberal faith, in both the theological and political senses, in a second-class legal status — PolitiTweet.org

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An actual legal argument that Reform Jews like myself are not real Jews entitled to equal constitutional rights https://t.co/mHB7YNXap3 https://t.co/By2EZATrYn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mjschwartzman: This is a conservative trial balloon for rejecting religious exemptions for abortion by denying the sincerity of liberal… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jtlevy What’s the article that prompted this? — PolitiTweet.org

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@janecoaston @DavidAstinWalsh 100 percent on brand — PolitiTweet.org

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*dubious, not Dubois — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t hate realism exactly - I find some of its insights very useful! I do hate when it is used to present Dubois moral views and policy prescriptions, including morally noxious ones, as the only possible options available. — PolitiTweet.org

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To this I would add: the “smuggling in unstated assumptions” point is linked to a normative critique. Realists have a very specific normative worldview, unstated and not really theorized, that they smuggle in by arguing it’s the only one possible given how the world really works — PolitiTweet.org

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I’d be the most dominant candidate since Reagan in 84 https://t.co/aQHGqxkpYB — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @vox_union: WE HAVE A DEAL!!!!! After an intense week of bargaining with Vox Media Management, we are thrilled to announce that we've re… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bigblackjacobin Your question is challenging in a good way though, helped me clarify exactly how I’m thinking about this — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@bigblackjacobin I see “fascism” as an analogy & analytic frame, one that sheds light on certain aspects of Trumpism and isn’t as helpful with others. The debate over whether Trump is a fascist in some essential sense is less interesting to me, though I have no objections to others engaging in it — PolitiTweet.org