Not a parody. Think about that.
Ian certainly has his knickers in a twist, not only about Trump but about Gorsuch – he certainly has spent enough time over the past year bitching about them both.
He was triggered by this tweet about people needing to work together (no, we’re not making this up).
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. #IBelieve in putting them all aside. /3/
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) November 26, 2017
Work together.
Get outta here with your crazy talk.
1) This is a nice sentiment, but it is not a viable plan for defending democracy. American democracy isn't fighting a one-front war against Trump, it is fighting a two-front war against Trump and Gorsuch. https://t.co/JTyiDsBpt7
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 26, 2017
He should have left off everything after his ‘but.’
2) The future Neil Gorsuch wants — and his friends in the Federalist Society and in much of the "establishment" GOP — cannot in any fair way be described as democratic. https://t.co/IHZ7sBCAS7
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 26, 2017
Well, that’s good because we’re not a Democracy.
3) Hostile towards voting rights. Equally hostile towards anti-discrimination laws. Eager to revive 80-years-dead legal doctrines that would make meaningful regulation of the environment or the workplace impossible. Willing to manipulate existing doctrines for ideological ends.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 26, 2017
How anyone can take this guy seriously, we’ll never know. Our only real solace is that there aren’t a ton of people fav’ing this nonsense.
Maybe there’s hope yet!
4) One of my biggest fears is that we defeat Trump, and then wake up in an age much like the one nineteenth century robber barons built and maintained from the 1890s through much of the 1930s.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 27, 2017
Holy sh*t, right?
5) So yeah, Trump's brand of incompetently authoritarian white nationalist must be defeated. But so too must the anti-democratic radical libertarianism sold by people like Gorsuch and Paul Ryan.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 27, 2017
BUT TRUMP. BUT GORSUCH. BUT RYAN!
6) And, while it may sometimes be strategic to play one of these enemies of democracy off of the other one, we should have no illusions that both of them want to build a world that no small-"l' liberal, small-"d" democrat wants to live in.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 27, 2017
Little l here, little d there.
So deep and stuff, man.
Oh Ian.
Sweet, dumb, Ian.
— Ordy's handcrafted Yule log (@TheOpulentAmish) November 27, 2017
Just pat him on the head and walk away.
Instead of “defending democracy”, you should be defending our Republic.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what’s for dinner.
— Dwarfclone (@Dwarfclone) November 27, 2017
Sounds a lot like you want a war. Is this true?
— Red Dirt Patriot (@SwTkthe1) November 27, 2017
He’d want a war with the Right until he remembers we’re the one with all the guns.
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) November 27, 2017
And curtain.
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