Very good criticism, and not nearly as dirty as it sounds.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Come on, man.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Infrastructure week. at last.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
You cannot shame the shameless.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
People are complicated. Love is not.
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
rachel
Good, ’cause it sounds like a daisy-chain.
OK, my tiny mind is boggled now.
Punchy
Can we do Jesus’ General doing commenters doing Freddy Thompson?
If this isn’t spoof, then…well…nevermind. This has to be spoof.
rilkefan
Dunno – Klein’s take on Mearsheimer/Walt is approximately “ok I finally admit the work is shoddy but it’s worthwhile for opening up discussion” which isn’t that different in form from Sullivan’s “The TNR article on Hillarycare was flawed but it provoked discussion”.
rilkefan
And I have seen a lot of criticism of war supporters that insistently blurred the distinction in argument of the crazies and the wrongs. That’s a bad thing per se but also because of the disservice it does to e.g. John Cole or even MY and Drum and Kleiman and [self-serving here] to liberal opponents of the Iraq war who support sane interventions when the circumstances call for them.
sashal
The best Larison post ever (in my opinion):
link
sglover
I’m pretty far left, but over the last year or two I’ve noticed that much (but certainly not *all*) of the sharpest commentary is coming from old school conservatives like Larison, the guy who runs the “Cunning Realist” site, Andrew Bacevich, and (when he isn’t getting the vapors over Mexicans) William Lind. Depending on your point of view, you might be able to shoehorn Jim Henley into this crowd, too.
In fairness to my side, we still have Robert Wright, the bantamweight Robert Reich, David Kaiser, and the (unfortunately mum, lately) Kingdaddy.
Out of all of them, I think Lind wins the originality prize with his genuflections to Kaiser Wilhelm. Not something you’re likely to run across in your standard Beltway Powerpoint spiel.
sglover
Hey, thanks for that cite, sashal. Terrific essay. A real model of clarity!
Zifnab
I need to sit down. This whole thing makes me dizzy.
Pooh
Rilke, this has uhmmm ZERO to do with Walt & Mearsheimer. You don’t like their thesis, we get it.
rilkefan
Pooh, you obviously haven’t been following the Klein/Sullivan conversation. I tend to make comments assuming readers have at least slightly acquainted themselves with the topic at hand.