Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@mattyglesias Oh yeah, I've been meaning to read that! Thanks for the reminder — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

This is an on-target critique of how first-past-the-post elections are making America's democratic crisis worse — published, just so we're clear, in 1999 https://t.co/ajIsszUwvG — PolitiTweet.org

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It's amazing to me how many of our current debates about American democracy's flaws were predicted by Lijphart over 20 years ago https://t.co/hchbPDK2iz — PolitiTweet.org

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@ArminRosen lmao really — PolitiTweet.org

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@ArminRosen i see you believe the slurs from those capitalist running dogs at the warren commission, wake up sheeple — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It's eerie how little radical right rhetoric has changed over the past half-century. It's disturbing how much it's moved into the mainstream. — PolitiTweet.org

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It is extremely unfortunate that @DLeonhardt and the folks at the Times figured out how good German is, as now we can't keep him forever — PolitiTweet.org

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@bfwalter @EricaChenoweth Oh this sounds so interesting — and the book is actually relevant to something I'm working on right now. Mind sending me an email, [email protected], so we can talk about your findings? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is what it looks like when a society’s basic democratic compact breaks down https://t.co/ArBLtHAojg — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations to everyone who platformed this asshole and literally contributed to making America sicker — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman I meant "liberal" in the American sense, not the philosophical one, in the first tweet — since what I'm concerned about in this context is the demonization of the American left broadly construed. But I do take your point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman https://t.co/vm0SbCe1cQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Hayes and Goldberg did something genuinely brave here. But they have been longtime exemplars of the right's anti-liberal, conspiratorial impulses. When they get off the bus, specifically over January 6 conspiracy theories, that says something about how far gone Fox is. — PolitiTweet.org

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When the author of "Liberal Fascism" and the chief proponent of an al Qaeda-Saddam link think you've gone off the deep end, that's saying something https://t.co/mEHCKIwbjw — PolitiTweet.org

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The people have spoken it’s Cam — PolitiTweet.org

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Fantasy football advice: Tyler Huntley (Lamar Jackson’s backup) versus Bears, or Cam Newton versus Washington? — PolitiTweet.org

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@orensegal How do you see the linkages/interconnections between GOP celebrations of Rittenhouse and fringe right celebrations? — PolitiTweet.org

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What do you even do with a party like this? It's one thing to say he shouldn't go to jail, quite another to actively celebrate him — PolitiTweet.org

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At least three House Republicans have already said they want Kyle Rittenhouse to be their intern https://t.co/jMXuGj9Vdl — PolitiTweet.org

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@kathleen_belew hey kathleen, i'm interested in talking to you about this point — mind shooting me an email, [email protected]? — PolitiTweet.org

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@CasMudde yes good point — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

I think it's probably right that Rittenhouse isn't going to prison and I'm glad to live in a society where defendants have rights. But he's about to become a right-wing celebrity and could very well inspire copycats — and that should trouble all of us — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford i'm trying to think of the kind of person who needs the "adolf" to get the reference — PolitiTweet.org

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Two things that can both be true: 1) The prosecution did not meet the burden of proof against Kyle Rittenhouse and his acquittal was legally correct 2) A society that encourages teenagers to pick up arms and put themselves in dangerous situations is deeply, profoundly unjust — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @drfarls I think we're talking past each other. I wasn't taking a position on higher ed abstractly, but to illustrate a trend in right-wing thinking towards using policy for coercive political ends. I think that is troubling independent of whether there's a theoretically OK policy here — PolitiTweet.org

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@drfarls @mattyglesias also in context, the proposal is to intentionally saddle students with more debts *in order* to destroy universities. it's not a good faith reform proposal, it's sabotage — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias i think it's not if the policy is designed explicitly to bankrupt universities — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/jAi7QlrhjP https://t.co/qvBWALKi0u — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The last week showed that the intellectual and activist energy on the right is, increasingly, trending in an overtly anti-liberal direction https://t.co/jAi7QlrhjP — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@Nate_Cohn @BrendanNyhan @cwarshaw i don't think that's true, largely because it doesn't actually make conceptual sense to put the entirety of attitudes towards democracy on an uninterrupted straight line continuum. but this is a) too complicated for twitter and b) not actually very consequential — PolitiTweet.org