Nate Cohn

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@ParkerMolloy @HeerJeet nothing i'm saying is a defense of GOP attacks on death panels. i'm noting that the confusion over the CRT debate is unique — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @ParkerMolloy even other conservative branding efforts--death panel--don't have this 'misunderstanding' prop up — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @ParkerMolloy rather than simply engage on the issues of contest, we wind up with tweets like 'that's not crt!!' or 'you don't know what crt is.' which is all true. but i think the initial and unique cause is the absence of any shared term to describe what's in question — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @ParkerMolloy in this case, they did not have a term like socialism or feminism. they elevated a term to fill its place, and that term happens to describe something quite different and narrow--a legal academic theory. as a consequence, there has been a silly debate about the meaning of CRT — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet @ParkerMolloy i think that's kind of incidental to my point. conservatives brand left ideas in a negative way all the time. see: 'socialism' or 'feminism.' but there's no misunderstanding about what they're talking about, because they're attacking a term with at least somewhat shared meaning — PolitiTweet.org

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@ParkerMolloy some of those ideas emerge from historiography--your accurate history. others from sociology. others from critical theory. they all fit together, they have a huge impact on american politics today, and they're basically nameless--'woke' or 'antiracism' maybe come closest — PolitiTweet.org

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@ParkerMolloy you're imposing a bunch of assumptions on to a very, very narrow point: the misunderstanding--ie: the semantic debate about whether to call this all CRT--is an artifact of something fairly unusual: there's no preexisting name for the ideas conservatives want to ban — PolitiTweet.org

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@ParkerMolloy your characterization is so comically far from what i've actually said that i assume that this is in bad faith. but if not, i think if you reread it you'll see that there's absolutely zero, zero basis for the interpretation you've advanced here — PolitiTweet.org

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I explored some of these risks with the Georgia law back in April https://t.co/ibJ0BovSrN — PolitiTweet.org

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Local county and municipal election boards are at the intersection of the classical 'voter suppression' and the new risk of election subversion Local authorities can influence everything from precinct closures to the vote count itself https://t.co/RmSm0a4iOR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NathanKalmoe: @Nate_Cohn Ah, I see. Very similar to the full party results. Here's the party gap just among non-Hispanic whites: https:… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @paulkrugman: Timberrrrrr! (Spot lumber prices) 3/ https://t.co/VVg2zkWfZ1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanKalmoe that's surprising and fun (though by 'among whites' i was meant white dems v white reps ) — PolitiTweet.org

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@NathanKalmoe would be interested to see among whites — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NathanKalmoe: Parties are coalitions of social groups, & groups realign. Mid-20th C realigning over white supremacy was biggest. Today,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lpolgreen: She Was a Black Election Official in Georgia. Then Came New G.O.P. Rules. - The New York Times https://t.co/NxADA0Pnf5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeMGrumbach @hakeemjefferson @cwarshaw at risk of sound like a pedant, he does say 'in contrast'! — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeMGrumbach @hakeemjefferson @cwarshaw I think he said that there's not much of an effect, and thus no comparable threat to democracy, not that there's no problem with it — PolitiTweet.org

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@hakeemjefferson @JakeMGrumbach I didn't get the impression that Chris disagrees on any of that. But I got the impression from your tweet that photo ID wasn't just any of the various burdens in the system today, but one particularly challenging to accept. Maybe I got the wrong impression — PolitiTweet.org

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@hakeemjefferson do you see voter registration as equivalent, better, or worse than voter ID? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jon_m_rob: This is criticism of HR1 not Manchin https://t.co/UALlI7e6Y0 — PolitiTweet.org

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this is a truly incredible map https://t.co/a3cwT1fbuL — PolitiTweet.org

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this is a truly incredible maphttps://twitter.com/504Tman/status/1405518071088005125?s=20 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kasie: Mike Pence refused pressure to not certify the election. After 4 years as a VP loyal to Donald Trump, he put our democracy first… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aoki5Chuck @CaesarSalad99 @kombiz @mattyglesias idk there are two analogies to think about here. one is the attempt to brand something in bad faith ('death tax', 'radical feminist', 'death panel'). the other is the attempt to attack a neutral term, like the GOP attack on feminism, socialism, etc., which can be fair game — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias right, though many of the major ideas that precede kendi basically go nameless, as well — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias And the focus on the name, while totally understandable, is blocking everyone involved from just listing out the constituent ideas at issue and saying where they agree and disagree — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Isn't the core of the 'misunderstanding' straightforward? There is no term to describe the constellation of ideological coherent, academic, new-left ideas on racism, history and liberalism. The left didn't give it a name like feminism or socialism; the right found something close — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "That 2009 climate bill, the one that President Barack Obama couldn’t pass? It required the U.S. to cut greenhouse-gas… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ForecasterEnten and as a consequence it's hard for me to feel overly confident that garcia is far more competitive than wiley in the final round, though that emerson poll is certainly consistent with that — PolitiTweet.org