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TomD's avatar

Certainly since Newt Gingrich was Speaker, but the Bulwark does not do exhaustive background checks. Opposition to Trump and support for democracy--and a commitment to critical thinking-?--are the only items on the list.

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David Court's avatar

Don't know that it is fair to say "The Bulwark does not do exhaustive background checks" when this comment comes from a single author, and I doubt that the editors, publishers and assorted leaders proof-read everything one of their trusted writers emits. The proof-reading/background checking is the responsibility of the person who signs the article.

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TomD's avatar

I think you're reading me wrong. My sense of the Bulwark is that this is an emergency and we do not hold peoples' feet to the fire about the past.

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David Court's avatar

Doesn't your initial comment "Certainly since Newt Gingrich...." hold someone's feet to the fire as being inaccurate (in your eyes)? I also do not understand who your mean as "we" do not hold....

I'm not trying to pick a nit with you, just understand your apparent criticism.

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TomD's avatar

PS: "Certainly since Newt Gingrich" I took to be agreeing with you, at least in part.

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TomD's avatar

I'm a labor Democrat who was among the first to subscribe to the Bulwark. I was not entirely comfortable with that, being that the Bulwark's founders were Bill Kristol and other neo-cons, but I saw the need for a tactical alliance. In an emergency--house on fire, someone drowning--the imperative is to act and be effective. When I wrote "we," that was my observation of how things have gone. I do not think of myself as a comments monitor, as in "In polite society, we always place the salad fork on the left." (right?)

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David Court's avatar

Tom, I never, to my recollection, voted for an R, and even refused to hang my UC Diploma because it was signed by Ronnie R. I started with the Bulwark to have an "R" view of TFG before he was TFG, just a brash, fouI-mouthed, misogynist riding down a gold-plated escalator because a good friend here in Germany commented that all of my arguments and "facts" were coming from NYT et al. So I looked for an "R" take and landed here. I liked the attempt at balance, the civility and the encouragement of similar dialogue enough to become a Founder.

That by way of my background and my feeling a need to "stand up" for the "gang". I see that your initial comment was actually two, separate thoughts which I took as one. I now understand your "limitation" to their "list". Whether I agree to limit it to those three points is fodder for another time. ЁЯШЙЁЯН╗

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Linda Mannino's avatar

(Correct!)

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