Isn't that my point? The Maidan protesters weren't elected. The President they toppled was. Our support for the protesters had an anti-democratic aspect that the foreign policy establishment learned to gloss over. (That's true even though it wasn't "the U.S.'s doing") https://t.co/XUGnUwfI8I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 15, 2019
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"[T]he vice president [Biden] would not even discuss taking the step that could make all questions vanish: asking his son to quit the Burisma board, as editorial boards and Ukraine experts were suggesting." https://t.co/vjro0m7S8I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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I dunno, @MarkSKrikorian. The SPLC says that
"At one point, [you] sent a CIS report to Breitbart that [you] described as “embargoed.”
Sounds nefarious to me. They've got the goods on you. https://t.co/sqHwDJ434b
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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If Trump had said "You must deposit $20M in my Swiss bank account"–Guilty.
If Trump says "You have to investigate this corrupt company the US been trying to get you to investigate for years and that has this incredibly smelly deal with the ex-VP's son"–not so much https://t.co/v7QLeVgFlS— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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If you keep a lid on unskilled immigration–even a shaky lid–in a growing economy, this is what happens, no? Still the best case for Trump. https://t.co/wXIIeiXarz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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Also I wanted more on the argument that social equality–as opposed to trust, or a welfare state–is easier if there's a common culture. (That doesn't seem an obvious slam dunk claim to me) 4/ https://t.co/rE4lUYgaTq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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I wanted more on one of Lowry's more important claims-that nationalism translates into LESS war under modern conditions (when border fights are relatively rare but Wilsonian trans-national crusades are not). 3/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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Here's what seems the most controversial sentence in Lowry's book: "[D]enying one culture for another-namely the one that immigrants have voluntarily joined by coming here in the first place-is the least we can ask as the price of entry to our country." That has some bite. 2/
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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Re Lowry's book: I didn't understand what the "nationalism" fuss was about. Now I do–the book's written v-clearly. Main problem is its basic argument seems so sensible it's hard to think of the opposing case without imagining some Tucker Carlson foil. 1/ https://t.co/rE4lUXYzuQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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Who needs to be paranoid when you have Pareene discussing the secret .fool-the-voters plan on Twitter?
Isn't this what Journolist was for? Maybe its really disappeared. https://t.co/z08iN6U7Kc— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 14, 2019
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Today's most important poll (on @annalthouse's blog)https://t.co/nnO4nE4PPL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 13, 2019
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Alexander Hamilton, going @RobertDPutnam one better on the ill effects of too much immigration. (This is apparently from the pseudonymous Hamilton essay referred to in @RichLowry's new book on nationalism. @lin_manuel music tk). https://t.co/sXr4ZxNboA
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 13, 2019
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In my experience when you provoke a snotty, contentless put-down like this, it means you're over the target. Does the anti-Russia FP elite at some level realize its Ukraine policy was problematically aggressive (eg from a democracy POV)? When you feel guilty you react angrier! https://t.co/nQrmX3Pu8X
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 13, 2019
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Here's me & @robertwrighter on bhtv in 2015 talking Ukraine & Maidan. Bob's more a foreign policy guy than I am but basically takes my current line. Will @DanDrezner sneer at Bob? https://t.co/mgB7nKY5x9 https://t.co/nQrmX3Pu8X
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 13, 2019
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I suppose it would be a cheap shot to link to this astute, not-out-of-depth analysis https://t.co/a19SnOOM5y I should defer to my betters. https://t.co/St7ojKdENc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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I think we egged them on. You don't? https://t.co/wfUuiVFIvy https://t.co/St7ojKdENc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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Please, be more condescending … https://t.co/nQrmX4750v
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president — in Ukraine (2014) — it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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Me on Dreamers: https://t.co/kBGHX4uftv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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Also Dems aren't 100% sure they want to give a special amnesty to "dreamers" — strategy was previously to hold out for a giant amnesty for all 11M+ illegals. https://t.co/SN7JCtIeOH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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For @adamliptak: Here's government document making clear you do not have to be a 'high school graduate" to qualify for DACA: https://t.co/rHOZ8aIC2q https://t.co/xtdafo1yRT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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.@NYTimes & @AdamLiptak wrongly report "strict requirements" for DACA. You don't have to be "a high school graduate." You only have to ENROLL in a high school course or an "alternative"–such as ESL. Will NYT correct? They only had 7 years to get it right. https://t.co/REPiSkxT5I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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It's possible, of course, that Dems (and Vindman's lawyer) will use @ByronYork 's article as a guide for prepping Vindman for his TV appearance, so he doesn't come off like he comes off in the depositions. … https://t.co/UPvmLa5Dwl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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Reading @RichLowry's "Case for Nationalism": Tell me more about Alexander Hamilton's "pseudonymous newspaper essay in 1802, warning of unchecked immigration …" Also tell @Lin_Manuel.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 12, 2019
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