Six months ago, doctors gave @BenSasse three to four months to live. He’s still here.
Ben Sasse sat down with Dispatch senior editor @McCormackJohn to talk about faith, suffering, family, and death. Here's what he had to say: ⬇️ (1/6)
On Graham Platner and looking the blue-collar part | Nick Catoggio
"Democratic primary voters will decide that he can’t possibly be a degenerate and/or that he is a degenerate and that’s good.
Fetishes are perverse, and political fetishes are no different." https://t.co/E7Akwg9Q0U
"You’d think that the easiest job in government would be enforcing the law on people who want to comply with it—but, as it turns out, it is not that simple." | Kevin D. Williamson 🔓
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Is the American Experiment Legitimate?
How the Constitution met, and still meets, the test posed by the Declaration of Independence | Yuval Levin
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"To say that Platner 'isn’t perfect' is to say nothing at all. None of us is perfect.
Platner is a man with an SS tattoo and fidelity problems who cannot manage to give a forthright account of either these or many other legitimate concerns about his character and his candidacy." | Kevin D. Williamson
https://t.co/OFXmwdibyg
"Elect a mafioso president, and your government will be run like the mafia. Congratulations to the nominee on an honor well-earned." | Nick Catoggio
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NEW: Trump just compared the UFC arena on the White House lawn to the Eiffel Tower.
"It took 250 years, but you got here. All the way down here. From Greatest Generation to White Trash Nation in the space of one lifetime." | Kevin D. Williamson
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"Bill Pulte can lawfully hold the position of director of national intelligence for the rest of this year—and then for all of next year, provided that Trump is willing to nominate two unconfirmable putzes in succession to replace him." | Nick Catoggio
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"Should we love a man such as Platner—pray for him, forgive him, help him along, welcome him, encourage him? Yes, of course, all that. Should we endow him with a position of extraordinary public trust? Of course not." | Kevin D. Wiliiamson
https://t.co/54c2b8ldKS
The Graham Platner controversy isn’t really about one Senate candidate. It’s about what happens when political parties stop vetting the people who want to hold office | Jonah Goldberg
https://t.co/yjK6Q9cp0Z
"I like reminding people that despair in Christian theology is called the gravest of sins. And the reason why is because despair, properly understood, originally understood, was the idea that you were so irredeemable, that you were beyond salvation, that you were so sinful and you had transgressed so much that you shouldn't even bother asking for God's forgiveness because you were beyond it."
@JonahDispatch's live Remnant out now!
"When Trump fans declare that he should 'finish the job,' which job do they mean? The job of regime change, which seven weeks of bombing failed to accomplish?" | Nick Catoggio
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"When you watch Democrats try to support Graham Platner, it's like walking through a carnival funhouse version of watching Republicans talk themselves into supporting Donald Trump in 2016." | @DavidAFrench