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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
This is a great thread but at the end of the day doesn’t the complaint really amount to saying Democrats went too far left?
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17
Okay. So I've wanted to articulate this for a while, but never really knew how. But I'm personally absolutely, completely disgusted with the Democratic Party — *my* party, in many ways — and not because of the party moving "too far left/right". Let me explain.🧵
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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
I don't think the rise of proceduralism maps onto any simple move left. A lot of this was designed to restrain the government itself. If you see the left as wanting a strong and capable government, this sort of hobbling is a move right.
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Maya Sen
@maya_sen
What’s missing in the analysis here is that adversarial legalism is now the purview of the ideological left in part due to educational polarization and the overwhelmingly liberal bent of lawyers, who are strongly institutionally oriented
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A. Iye
@AkshIye
Wasn’t it pioneered by liberal good government reformers? These days adversarial legalism is so entrenched it a tool used by all sides - the left, moderates, *and* the right. IE a lot of anti-DEI stuff amounts to similar proceduralism in the opposite direction
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@acrunksquirrel
most lawyers are libs but that doesn't mean "adversarial legalism," whatever you mean by that, "is now the purview of the ideological left," whatever you mean by that as well
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Rusty
@rustyslamington
Perhaps you are all terrible dick head scolds. And you can espouse any policy you want. It when you call whites and males the enemy for a decade they might take it to heart. People are allowed to vote for their self interests after all
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Mike Roberts
@MicahRJrEsqIII
The litigious nature of the USA pushed by lefty pols funded by state trial bars is a massive issue in this country politically, economically, culturally, etc. The answer to every little thing can’t be to take someone to court. A little accountability goes a long way.
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