Jon Mermin

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@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.

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@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?

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@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.

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@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.

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@jessesingal And so French that he seemed to have a good philosophical attitude about being ejected.

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@robertwrighter @ChrisMurphyCT Isn’t this just obvious stuff to say politically though?

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@EliotACohen @TheAtlantic Looking forward to your contrarian and unbiased thinking about “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

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@mattyglesias Don’t judge us by our airport. City otherwise weird.

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@brhodes You mean people like Eliot Cohen?

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@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?

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@mattyglesias OK but the tanking problem is created by decisionmakers believing it is important to have as high a pick as possible.

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@tomaspueyo @daniel_271828 Theology.

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@washingtonian @gtconway3d Reuben missile crisis

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@jayrosen_nyu @PuckNews Although they do still lean neocon on foreign policy stuff.

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@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.

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@CHueyBurns @weijia Oh how dreadfully unfair to do that to DONALD TRUMP, who literally lies all the time about everything. Gotta uphold the norms!

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@cisco8oona @mattyglesias so we probably are in agreement here. anyway we should catch up sometime!

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@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

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@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?

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@GaryMarcus Shrinking