Bothsidesism is a terrible thing, until you really need it to get out of a jam …. https://t.co/i2t9LTzvsQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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The problem is that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) is never temporary–as we've learned when Trump tried to end it for some countries. https://t.co/cvfGxKnga6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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Speaking of cartoony, this reminds me: Has anyone gotten to the bottom of Dan Wolfe, the mysteriously on-the-nose "Conservative Reagan Republican"–("No Obamacare, socialism, sharia”)–who first busted Anthony Weiner? https://t.co/zvCDEKYuxg https://t.co/bEYq6lbRgm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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THEY KNEW THEY BLEW OFF WALL: "More than half a dozen current & former [WH] officials told me that after they passed their big tax bill last Congress, a broad consensus emerged: Trump wouldn't get anything else big through Congress before his re-election." https://t.co/scJtMXBhMZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 19, 2019
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So New Yorkers are allowed to worry about a "50% population increase" due to migration from elsewhere. But you're not allowed to think like that when it comes to US immigration policy? https://t.co/QGggUxEZqB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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But Kochs played a role in the failure of Congress to enact Trump's immigration priorities (which are not theirs)–which in turn arguably hurt GOPs in the last election, no? https://t.co/RLJ3UxVDPr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Wait: "Mocking the *concept*…of hate crimes" [E.A.] isn't allowed on Facebook? So no blog posts like this one from Andrew Sullivan (https://t.co/TmYGdTbyYf) even if wholly abstract? Can we mock the concept of Facebook's censorship model? https://t.co/om9DG9jifk #Trending
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Where is @lnstapundit when you need him? (He was always suggesting the non-delegation doctrine wasn't dead.) https://t.co/WcgU0KO47T
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 18, 2019
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Patrick Caddell: The real election surprise? The uprising of the American people https://t.co/mL4J6Zu2S5 Published day before 2016 election. Prescient! Also think he may be right about "tribalism" not dividing America–80% were pissed off in a potentially fluid way.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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My interpretation of this: Trump thinks he needs to keep the pot boiling. As immigration fight devolves into tedious court proceedings on wall funding, he senses vacuum of polarizing drama ahead. Fecklessly lashing out at media is his default pot-boiler. (Prediction: Won't work) https://t.co/cCrjMPGcW0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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"Whether we come from poverty or wealth…we are all equal in the eyes of God. (Cheering) But as Americans, that's not enough. We must be equal in the eyes of each other."– Reagan, 1992 convention address https://t.co/HBIMT5YWQQ https://t.co/1e398vyxte
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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"At one point, he declared the aides did not represent him and the statement should be rescinded," Tick-tock from @WaPo confirms Trump's adversary relationship with his own aides–e.g. Marc Short. Why did he pick them, then? https://t.co/9SuakR5PTQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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We disagree https://t.co/5mEPNFLcR8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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One exception would be ensuring those at the bottom have enough to fully participate in society–ie don't fall out bottom into some kind of underclass. That's the case for raising unskilled wages by regulating trade and immigation.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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The classic institution that enforced social equality directly was the military draft. Now it's gone, apparently never to return. Harder to come up with alternatives, but Medicare-for-all could be one of them. Or national service. Or just expanding the public, class-mixing sphere https://t.co/xvyms79ZfH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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And it's especially perverse to try to produce social equality/respect by extending and perfecting meritocratic mobility, which only reinforces the idea that those who win really deserve to win (and those who lose…). Think you need to reinforce social equality directly. https://t.co/oGePl6k4wQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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We want social equality even for those stuck on bottom. Think that means we have to decouple respect from material success. Seems hard to produce social equality by manipulating the mechanisms of material success in a capitalist sociey, which will always generate money inequality https://t.co/Vgj8sUaIzm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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And while mobility can subvert of social *in*equality–rigid classes–it's not enough to produce social equality. Will people say "I made it from bottom to top so can't judge by class!" or "See, meritocracy's working ever more perfectly! Those stuck on bottom really are losers"? https://t.co/RTZPGoWirS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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Seems a mistake to make social equality (or respect) depend on continued mobility. We want social equality whether mobility is rising or not https://t.co/By1MpO0Rk2' https://t.co/OO1uXzpQmo
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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Right. But couldn't SCOTUS revive the "non delegation doctrine" to say Congress can't just give its legislative power to another person/agency? Would be a huge deal (esp. if also applied to administrative agency rulemaking). Probably won't do it. https://t.co/sRxknnLyMm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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Thread … https://t.co/R3drWBWtqR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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True. But (key point) "Democrats in Congress will not only try to stop the national emergency declaration but also the spending that the White House argues does not require an emergency declaration." https://t.co/plq5ejEYnG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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Byron York: A glass quarter-full reading of Trump's border deal https://t.co/gFc3Ds9yVy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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I heard Caddell talk to a solid red crowd a few years ago, and was shocked that everything he said seemed right, including the anger–and including telling Republicans to stop using "Democrat" as an adjective. A big loss.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 17, 2019
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Why is Jared's first thought always to give Dems an amnesty? WSJ on WH during shutdown: "Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, pushed for a broader deal with Democrats to provide protections for some immigrants living in the U.S. without permission" https://t.co/NbNwdwopX8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) February 16, 2019
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