Beyond the specifics of this question, I really want to insist that it is not “amoral” for to urge people to care about whether or not the actions they take have the desired consequences.
What’s actually amoral are his critics.
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People sometimes make fun of my newsletter’s dumb name and it is kind of dumb, but the basic point of the Max Weber essay that it is drawn from remains underrated — politics isn’t about expressing how you feel about things, it’s about taking action to make things better.
Everybody likes to compare themselves to the civil rights movement, but the key leaders there combined clear moral vision with *intense* pragmatism and willingness to eat shit for the sake of concrete progress.
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Didn't you write a book promoting massive immigration in 2020?
And now I'm supposed to believe you've had a true change of heart on the issue and this isn't just bending with the political winds?
"These are my principles and if you don't like them... I have others."-Groucho
does popularism suggest there is any appropriate way to defend against a slide into a plebiscitary dictatorship if the leader is smart and only attacks unpopular institutions/laws?
Jesus quit acting like the world is a thing and it's not all about how I make myself feel inside
it actually good to take a stand on what is moral and not what is popular. but you will never understand that.
You’ve been proven wrong in like 96 hours!!! By taking a moral stand on disappearing Kilmar to El Salvador, Trump’s immigration numbers have gone down. The public is not an immovable object. Dems have agency. They can win arguments!
But you’d rather preemptively lose than try.
How high would the polling have to be for you to have personally led jews to gas chambers do you think?