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David Austin Walsh Profile picture
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Jul 19, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Powerful article. For my part, I'm beginning to understand just what the end of Reconstruction looked like -- a national government too contemptuous of democracy to protect it while it was under assault by the states.
And Jim Crow lasted for 70+ years -- in some states, nearly 90 years.
The consequences of all of this are really too terrible to contemplate. And yet here we are.
Hell, even the Republican scorn for black voters in the South in the 1870s has parallels today with the, "well, you should have VOTED in 2016 #StillWithHer #TheResistance" crowd.

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David Austin Walsh Profile picture
Sep 21, 2018
Prediction: Next week will solidify autocracy in the United States.
Trump will use the Rosenstein story as a pretext to fire him, and then fire Mueller.
Kavanaugh will be confirmed, cementing a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court and ensuring that the executive's actions will not be subject to any meaningful legal oversight.
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Sep 20, 2018
Serious question: what does “legitimacy” mean in this context? What does treating the Supreme Court as an “illegitimate” institution look like?
It strikes me that if the criteria for “legitimacy” is popular democracy, then the current federal and many state governments (I’m looking at you, North Carolina) are “illegitimate.”
Even the DC city gov’t is “illegitimate,” as it’s poised to reverse a voter referendum on raising the minimum wage for tipped workers.
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Sep 18, 2018
SPOILER ALERT: Remember how, at the end of “Sorry to Bother You,” Cassius repeatedly went on national TV to warn people about WorryFree and nothing happened?
I feel like we’re going through that right now. nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/…
Crickets so far from the free speech crowd:
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Sep 16, 2018
Oh, Lord.

Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice in his alleged attempted rape, is the author of “God and Man at Georgetown Prep.”
Oh, and here’s a Daily Caller column where he blames the liberals and the gays for introducing their effete and immoral sexual agenda into the Catholic Church. dailycaller.com/2011/01/27/geo…
To whit.
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Sep 15, 2018
Let me state this unequivocally: The political transformations required to accomplish this are impossible. So what does that mean for the future? motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
It means that the politics of the 21st century--and beyond--will be first and foremost the politics of living on a dying planet.
At its most dire, it means the politics of managing human extinction.
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Sep 15, 2018
A few quick takes on Andrew Sullivan’s latest attempt to defend the long conservative intellectual tradition. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
I’m not gonna dive too deep into this since @SethCotlar has already done a bang-up job.
@SethCotlar 1) The way Sullivan describes conservatism is very similar to @CoreyRobin, as a defense of entrenched privilege expressed through an established social order.

The difference is that Sully thinks this is a good thing.
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