@davidfrum Please reflect on whether making criticism of Israel off limits by conflating it with antisemitism is ultimately good for the Jews. I don’t see how it could be.
@cisco8oona@RaviMGupta Sure there is—while Mills running always struck me as a dumb idea, it’s not at all obvious at this point that Platner’s the better bet! Given that the primary hasn’t happened yet isn’t it fair for people to say what they think?
@TimBontemps OK but that would make the outcome of *all* games less predictable, which I don’t think has happened? I’m more inclined to think it’s that the officiating used to subtlely and probably unconsciously favor the home team a little and no longer does.
@ijbailey@DavidAFrench Ok but if the choice is between a Democratic senate with a morally flawed senator and a Republican senate that lets Trump do whatever he wants I’m taking the former.
@EliotACohen@TheAtlantic Looking forward to your contrarian and unbiased thinking about “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
@EliotACohen@TheAtlantic “a queasy doubt that Trump knows what he is doing”?? Trump stumbles for whatever insane or self-interested reasons onto a policy you happen to like, so you figure he probably (but you’re not sure) “knows what he is doing”? Trump? Really?
@jayrosen_nyu@PuckNews I wouldn’t even call it sort of conservative; it’s more whatever it takes to beat Trumpism, with a presumption that moderation is the way to do that.
@cisco8oona@mattyglesias I take the point to be not that those positions are necessarily more effective, but that the national party needs to be open to candidates who hold them
@cisco8oona@mattyglesias OK so what if there was an otherwise strong D candidate in a very red state whose one flaw was they were pro gun or anti-abortion?