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Vox: The left shouldn't make peace with neocons — even to defeat Trump
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:17 am
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:17 am
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Liberals are batshit crazy...
Liberals are batshit crazy...
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Here’s a sentence I never expected to find myself writing: Recently, influential liberal commentators recommended that liberals quit arguing with conservatives about public policy.
It all started when Ben Wittes, a national security specialist at the Brookings Institution, recommended in an 18-tweet manifesto that Americans who oppose Trumpism suspend discussion of what divides them so they can together confront this “national emergency.”
He wrote, “We have grave disagreements about social issues, about important foreign policy questions, about tax policy, about whether entitlements should be reformed or expanded, about what sort of judges should serve on our courts.” He added: “I believe in putting them all aside.”
Michael Tomasky, editor of the journal Democracy and former editor of the American Prospect, then wrote a Daily Beast piece about the proposal floated by Wittes, declaring: “I’m with him.”
I’m not. And the best way to explain why is to look at someone else Tomasky says he’s now with: Bill Kristol, the neoconservative writer and political operator. Tomasky correctly anticipates that one source of liberal resistance to Wittes’s proposal will be the disturbing prospect of making nice to people like Kristol. Kristol, after all, is famous for, among other things, working hard to get us into the Iraq War and working hard to defeat Bill and Hillary Clinton’s 1993 plan to expand health care coverage. Tomasky writes, “Well, Bill Kristol’s done a lot of things I don’t like. And I’ve probably done a lot of things he didn’t like. … But I’m ready even to forget Iraq.”
Again, I say: I’m not. I’ve advocated something called “mindful resistance,” and one thing it entails is figuring out what array of forces created Trumpism so we can attack the problem at its roots. Well, (IMHO) there are few people who have more influentially abetted those forces than Bill Kristol.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:19 am to Prince_Hakeem
Nevertrump isn’t real. It’s only media figures and they should read this and understand that reciprocity ain’t happening
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:22 am to Prince_Hakeem
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Prince_Hakeem
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:30 am to Navytiger74
Can ya'll post at the same time?
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:32 am to Prince_Hakeem
That the left is willing to make nice with the most evil and bloodthirsty faction in American politics today should tell you all you need to know about how insincere anti-war liberals really were from 2002 until 2008. Further proof that there is no dividing line between the political establishment. More spending, more war, more spying.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:34 am to cajunangelle
quote:Why wouldn’t we be able to?
Can ya'll post at the same time?
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:35 am to Prince_Hakeem
“The left” is neoconservative. It’s all the same people in control.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:45 am to uway
The R's and the D's are the uniparty-no doubt.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:46 am to Navytiger74
Tough defeat for Navy this weekend
But they looked great in those Blue Angel Uniforms
But they looked great in those Blue Angel Uniforms
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:47 am to Prince_Hakeem
you need to reply so we know you aren't a bot.
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:49 am to Prince_Hakeem
Prince_Hakeem is NOT GAY!
Posted on 12/11/17 at 10:54 am to cajunangelle
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