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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Always shaken, never stirred.

CNN Politics

@CNNPolitics

4 years

Several GOP senators are shaken by footage they've seen during the impeachment trial, but still signal they are unlikely to change their minds

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Brian Stewart

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6 years

Reminded of @davidfrum 's line that Trump will never speak to or for the whole nation. "The nation was too big, and he was too small."

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6 years

Thank you @BretStephensNYT

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Brian Stewart

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6 years

Wrong answer, Mr. Secretary. Article V of the Washington treaty isn’t hypothetical.

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Brian Stewart

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4 years

Bob Dole, 1996: "If there’s anyone mistakenly attached to our party in the belief that we're not open to citizens of every race and religion, let me remind you this [is] the party of Lincoln and the exits ... are for you to walk out of, as I stand this ground without compromise."

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

7 years

In moments like this you feel acutely the absence of Christopher Hitchens' pen.

Steve Silberman

@stevesilberman

7 years

Yes really: Minister who led chorus at event at which GOP pedophile Roy Moore attacked "gays, lesbians, and bisexuals" convicted of obstruction of justice in son's molestation case.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

11 months

Israel must put an end to this kind of wanton violence from its most demented citizens.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

11 months

NOW: 40-year-old Palestinian shot and killed by Israeli settler in West Bank. Eyewitnesses say he was harvesting olives. @Haaretz

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Brian Stewart

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5 years

A welcome reminder to those who hired Trump despite his character flaws that you can’t expect one kind of man to be another kind of president.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

5 years

"North Korea has resumed missile testing, disregarding both Trump’s wooing and his threats of 'fire and fury.' It has taken the U.S. president’s measure—and found him weak and empty." Trump's record of failure isn't just in business, argues @davidfrum :

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Brian Stewart

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10 days

If Trump loses, it might have something to do with the fact that instead of campaigning he preferred to sell coins.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

10 days

Hello everyone! I have something incredible to share today, as we are introducing the launch of our Official Trump Coins! The ONLY OFFICIAL coin designed by me—and proudly minted here in the U.S.A. The President Donald J. Trump First Edition Silver Medallion will be available

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Brian Stewart

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1 year

Indisputably true. “Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

1 year

"If a decade ago you had told Trump supporters that this is the kind of man they would defend, that this is what they would become, most of them would have been horrified," @Peter_Wehner writes:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

A lot of light now spilling into the Covid tunnel.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

London records zero Covid deaths for first time in six months

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Brian Stewart

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3 years

My essay in the forthcoming issue of @Commentary is " @Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. the Mob." It shows how by defending the rights of women, the Somali-born feminist has incurred the wrath of progressives.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

American exceptionalism, courtesy of an administration that never believed in the concept—or in preserving the patrimony that it bequeathed.

Mark MacKinnon

@markmackinnon

5 years

The US is now on pace to have the worst coronavirus outbreak anywhere...

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Brian Stewart

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7 years

"China’s domestic security budget has exceeded that of its military." In other words, China fears its own population more than it does American power and alliances.

Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

7 years

The anxiety of this moment for Pax Americana is not relieved by the increasing strength and vigor of the Communist Party’s empire.

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Brian Stewart

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7 years

42 percent of immigrants in the country illegally overstayed their visas. Trump's "wall" won't touch them. As ever, the only serious measure for immigration restrictionists is universal E-Verify.

National Review

@NRO

7 years

Trump Should Trade the Wall for Better Immigration Policy via @JonahNRO

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

Given the reality of a corrupt and authoritarian GOP, “it’s more than an everyday political imperative that the other side govern successfully. It’s a unique moral imperative.” Once again, @davidfrum points the way:

David Frum

@davidfrum

3 years

Trump may hope to steal the 2024 election. All the more reason not to give it away.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

Sobering thread. Read it, and then prepare to act. As a great Republican once advised: "If there is no struggle there is no progress. ... Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

David Frum

@davidfrum

2 years

... should be as realistic as DeSantis. Trump's base is not reforming. That base's control of the wider GOP coalition is not weakening. US democracy is not recovering. The dangers ahead are not diminishing. END.

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Brian Stewart

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5 years

“We” didn’t, but Dinesh D’Souza did, when he called for making common cause with moderate Islam against the cultural left. Bollocks on stilts.

Patrick Chovanec

@prchovanec

5 years

I still find it amazing - as a conservative - that there are Americans who openly talk about other Americans with this much callous hostility and contempt. We didn't talk about whether Republicans or Democrats died on 9/11.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 months

Shocking lapse: 13 dead in Afghanistan. 2 Navy SEALS dead off the coast of Yemen.

Noah Rothman

@NoahCRothman

3 months

Joe Biden just insisted that he is the first president this decade not to oversee the deaths of U.S. troops overseas under his watch. Three U.S. soldiers were killed in a Shiite militia attack on a base in Jordan in January. That’s an egregious lapse.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

11 days

“Indiscriminate”? Not even Hezbollah denies these were its own custom-ordered pagers. The strike is the very definition of discriminate.

Zarah Sultana MP

@zarahsultana

13 days

Israel’s indiscriminate detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies across homes, workplaces and streets in Lebanon has killed at least 37 people and injured over 3,000. Israel knows it can commit war crimes with impunity. End all arms sales NOW.

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Brian Stewart

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3 years

Tucker Carlson doesn't know that, regardless of the status of Ukraine, NATO is already on the Russian border.

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@Acyn

3 years

Tucker: Putin invaded Ukraine because he didn’t want Ukraine to join NATO

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Brian Stewart

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2 years

"So much in the world depends on you." Of all the many moving words in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, those eight may have been the most urgent and important.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

2 years

“Maybe the people the Ukrainians needed us to be, maybe those were the people we could be again,” writes @davidfrum :

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

This is airtight.

David Rothkopf

@djrothkopf

2 years

Trump has always had a deeply troubling relationship with the US intelligence community. At his initial briefings as president, he was uninterested in key revelations and instead used the meeting to press officials for a public denunciation of the Steele dossier.

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Brian Stewart

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4 years

A small personal tale about POTUS: In September 2018, I was on a mad dash to find a groomsmen suit for a wedding I’d soon be attending in Brazil. I was delighted that the only other patron in the men’s section of the Manhattan department store that day was former VP Biden. 1/4

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

7 years

It would be nice if the U.S. had an immigration system that looked like somebody designed it on purpose.

Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

7 years

Excellent read: "While ... others choose their immigrants, the United States is content to let immigrants choose America."

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

6 years

Oh nothing to see here. Just a head of state maintaining a death sentence over a work of fiction.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

ICYMI, my review of @davidfrum ’s “Trumpocalypse,” a very useful guide to understanding the GOP in its various forms—the good, the bad, and the ugly:

The GOP After Trump

As David Frum argues in his new book, getting rid of this impostor president will be the beginning, not the end, of Republican reform.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

1 year

Who can forget Ukraine’s unprovoked invasion of Russia that killed droves of civilians and forced a reluctant Russian army into battle?

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

1 year

On @MSNBC last night, @chrislhayes asked me how the rest of the world heard Joe Biden's speech. I pointed out that a lot of people around the world do see the Israelis as the ones behaving like Russia in Ukraine - occupying, annexing, dropping bombs.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

9 years

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was a 24-year-old from Kuwait. Marines liberated his country of birth in the year of his birth. #Chattanooga

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

The most glaring flaw of the “Trump as fascist” hypothesis is that Trump is too weak to be a strongman.

Trump Is Too Weak to Be a Strongman

He’s a failure even as a fascist.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

@guypbenson On what issue is she not a conservative Republican, Guy? Fidelity to the Constitution? Perhaps her rivals are the ones straying from conservatism rightly understood.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Last chance for U.K.-E.U. trade deal, and some still imagine Trump cares about America’s allies. I recently challenged this conceit here:

David Frum

@davidfrum

4 years

It's not getting much attention over here, but one of the consequences of Trump's AWOL presidency and psychic collapse transition is that US voice is absent when UK & EU friends would benefit from a mediator urging mutual concession and compromise

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

“Economic policy has to be guided by a vision of a world resisting the forces that want to sever the bonds of trade and investment that unite country to country, continent to continent.”

David Frum

@davidfrum

4 years

Latest in @TheAtlantic World trade is collapsing. Trade agreements are unraveling. Would/could a Biden administration restore an open international economy?

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

6 years

See @davidfrum ’s deserved spot on this list — and my review of “Trumpocracy”:

FT Weekend

@ftweekend

6 years

What's the best politics book you've read this year? Our authors of 2018 include: @FukuyamaFrancis @epkaufm @glukianoff @JonHaidt @snigdhapoonam @davidfrum @Raniaab @paulkenyonTV @MacaesBruno @Yascha_Mounk @MichaelWolffNYC and @PedderSophie

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

I’ve always defended free speech and scorned religious fanaticism. But I’ve never published an article with “blasphemous” cartoons... until now. The Importance of Blasphemy, in @Quillette :

The Importance of Blasphemy

Think Deeper.

quillette.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace. My latest article in @Quillette :

Pacifism and Papal Fallibility

The Pope is a perverse sort of pacifist, not a man of peace.

quillette.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

On the politics of race, to paraphrase Orwell, "we have sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Going back through old interviews and blown away by one Robin D'Angelo did with Goop in January 2020 in which she states with absolutely zero pushback from the interviewer: "In many ways we're in the 60s in terms of the permission that's been given to explicitly express racism."

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

@thomaschattwill Hear, hear:

Ricky Gervais

@rickygervais

9 years

Remember, if you do a good deed, some fuckwit will always ask why you're not doing a different good deed. They'll be doing nothing of course

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Brian Stewart

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9 years

My review of the provocative and profane "Islam and the Future of Tolerance," by @SamHarrisOrg and @MaajidNawaz : http://t.co/jkAT1XhYXN

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

8 years

Hands up if you’ve seen a more succinct or successful takedown of @tanehisicoates .

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

He thanked me and proposed we take a picture. I don’t know why—was it my native Midwestern politeness?—but I waved off his suggestion. He insisted. And so here’s the face of a man I’m proud—on account not of partisanship but of character—to call my president. Fin.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Trump "views liberalism as weakness and thuggish authoritarianism as strength.” But as my comrade @ShayKhatiri argues, “liberalism was the free world’s strength against the Soviet Union, and it is going to be our strength against China and Russia..."

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

My @NRO review of @bariweiss ’s “How to Fight Anti-Semitism”: The Fight that Never Flags:

Anti-Semitism: The Fight That Never Flags | National Review

Bari Weiss’s book is a bold summons to confront humanity’s oldest hatred.

www.nationalreview.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

In the past two years, more than 250,000 unaccompanied minors have entered the country. An appalling illustration of the damage wrought by political posturing over “kids in cages.”

Hannah Dreier

@hannahdreier

2 years

The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now. Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.

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Brian Stewart

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4 years

Republicans dumbfounded by my support for Biden, and my response.

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A sobering piece on the agonizing energy dilemmas facing Europe. The need of the hour is to help Ukraine win the war, curb regulations on U.S. industry and actively promote nuclear power.

David Frum

@davidfrum

2 years

Through the warm weather of July, Russia has been testing its plan to cut off gas to Europe in winter. And winter is coming. My latest in @TheAtlantic

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

A line that has the added advantage of being true: “Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong.”

Yair Rosenberg

@Yair_Rosenberg

2 years

Why does America support Israel? Does a Jewish or Israel lobby control U.S. foreign policy? I talked with @wrmead about his new book, which debunks misconceptions of Jewish power, and details the decidedly non-Jewish roots of support for the Jewish state:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

9 years

If Trump were half as smart as he claims, he wouldn't have confirmed every jot and tittle of Romney's (sharp-as-a-knife) prediction.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

@CliffordDMay @McFaul All forms? No. But *this* sense of humor (if we’re feeling charitable) paired with an utter absence of integrity in government? Yes, that has long been forbidden.

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@bstewart1776

11 months

Pity the Syrians. Their solitude, as Fouad Ajami put it, played out against the background of an indifferent world. Slaughtered for their noble defiance of the most entrenched dictatorship in the Arab world, none wept for them. Their enemies weren’t Jews.

Asaad Sam Hanna

@AsaadHannaa

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We lost more than 30,000 people in Aleppo city northern Syria. More than 33,000 buildings were destroyed. All residents were displaced and not allowed to go back to their homes. This was committed by the Syrian government, Russia, and Iran.

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Brian Stewart

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6 years

The best takes on Ryan's role in the Republican crisis are both in @TheAtlantic by @davidfrum and @reihan

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

Idlib, the last rebel-held stronghold in Syria, is in grave danger. In @BulwarkOnline I lay out my approach to defend civilized norms and America’s strategic interests:

Time to Rescue Idlib

The last chance to save America's honor in Syria.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

“Today protecting Israel also means defending it from a political leadership that is undermining our society’s cohesion and its democratic ethos, the foundations of the Israeli success story.”

Matti Friedman

@MattiFriedman

2 years

At a dark and dangerous moment for Israeli society and government, a letter to Israel's friends abroad from my wonderful colleagues @YKleinHalevi and @DanielGordis , and from me:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

On the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, the memory of the intervention has somehow been severed from the tyrant it deposed. As I argue in @dcexaminer , the war cannot be understood without accounting for the singular role of Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein was there too - Washington Examiner

The surest proof that the Iraq War ended in disappointment and failure is that it has receded into history as an orphan: “George W. Bush’s war,” as it came to be known. As we mark its 20th annivers...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

In the past week I've written two broadsides against Bernie Sanders's hoary and sentimental foreign policy notions. They may be of interest to those voting in Democratic primaries on Tuesday. "The Inadequacy of Progressive Foreign Policy":

The Inadequacy of Progressive Foreign Policy

Bernie Sanders's foreign policy would likely be impotent or incoherent (or both).

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

Saddened to learn that another great conservative philosopher is no longer with us. Scruton was a curious student and peerless defender of the Anglo-American political inheritance. What an hour to be without his services.

Scrutari semper

@Roger_Scruton

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3 years

Ramadan kareem to those celebrating, and may it be an easy month of social distancing from those fine items not already prohibited by the faith.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

This show of ignorance and incuriosity is breathtaking. The @nytimes ' critical race theory curriculum, The 1619 Project, has been designed for high schools.

Ana Navarro-Cárdenas

@ananavarro

2 years

CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHILDREN. CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHILDREN. CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHILDREN. CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHILDREN. CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHILDREN.

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7 months

Edit: @mehdirhasan is no liberal. And "support" isn't all that poured out. A few of us were baffled that such a maniac was hired in the first place.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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The pugnacious liberal commentator Mehdi Hasan — whose departure from MSNBC after his shows were canceled triggered an outpouring of support last fall — is forming his own digital media company.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 months

I seem to have incurred some wrath for my defense of Buckley’s “liberal conservatism.” To those asking whether Buckley paved the way for a chauvinist or populist conservatism, I commend this clip of him castigating segregationist Democrats George Wallace and Leander Perez:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

An illuminating debate, in which @stephenWalt acidly complained that @McFaul once declared that America ought to oppose tyranny, sometimes with force. How gauche!

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

2 years

Watch @mcfaul and @radeksikorski take on Walt and Mearshimer. Worth your time

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

This actually understates the case against Trump, failing to cite his personal corruption and the harm he has done to the U.S.-led world order.

Andrew Sullivan

@sullydish

4 years

"Trump’s problem is not etiquette: It is dishonesty, stupidity, and incompetence, magnified by the self-dealing and cowardice of the cabal of enablers and sycophants who have a stake in pretending that this unsalted shit sandwich is filet mignon." Mwah!

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

And a follow-up: If Ukraine were already a NATO member, would Putin have ordered the invasion?

Eli Lake

@EliLake

3 years

Question for Mearsheimer cheering section. If Russia had an elected leader, honest courts, a free press and a real political opposition would it have invaded Ukraine last month?

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

“Trump’s opponents are crowing in satisfaction that their predictions have been proven right, that he was never fit to be President and should have been impeached long ago. But Trump’s character flaws were apparent for all to see when he ran for President.” Why “but”? Thread. 1/

Wall Street Journal Opinion

@WSJopinion

4 years

The Editorial Board: If Trump wants to avoid a second impeachment, his best path would be to take personal responsibility and resign.

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At this he smiled and asked what sort of Republican I was. The sort confident in American moral purpose—so more “in the McCain mold,” I replied. Since he’d just given a eulogy for McCain, I mentioned how much it had moved me. He graciously said “the best sort, then.” 3/4

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

Congratulations to @DavidAFrench and the Times.

David French

@DavidAFrench

2 years

I've got some news:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Long overdue.

Jonathan Chait

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4 years

Really good, short @JonahDispatch column pleading with Republicans to stop bashing city-dwellers and start competing for their votes

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Brian Stewart

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7 months

The party of Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump believes that Vladimir Putin upholds the rule of law. He actually commands a vicious mafia state, as I argue in @Quillette :

Unilateral Illiberalism

Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.

quillette.com

Republicans against Trump

@RpsAgainstTrump

7 months

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in a conversation with @WalshFreedom : “I thought Tucker’s interview [with Putin] was very interesting…I felt the little video he did going down into the Moscow subway built by Stalin 70 or 80 years ago Looks like a cathedral. Muscovites can go down there

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Brian Stewart

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2 years

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country..." What Thomas Paine didn't say is that some also seek credit for their disservice after the crisis.

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Trump's inner circle at the end was...Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Peter Navarro... Garbage in. Garbage out.

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Brian Stewart

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1 year

@cvaldary @ZaidJilani @TEDchris “Employees’ strong disagreement” as a reason to suppress the talk or attach conditions sits uncomfortably with the assertion that those same employees “believe in the importance of ideas” and in TED’s professed mission. Do they believe in airing a battle of ideas, or don’t they?

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Trump was no ‘great friend’ to the U.K.—and a Biden administration will be no curse. My rebuttal to @DouglasKMurray ’s recent elegy for Trump:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 months

Freeing Julian Assange has long been a cause célèbre among anti-establishment voices. My new @Quillette article pushes back against this sinister miscreant and all who have lavished praise upon him.

Quillette

@Quillette

3 months

The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest, writes @bstewart1776 .

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

@shadihamid @viet_t_nguyen Feeble thinking produces awful writing. To instance one example: “...to the politics of the apolitical, which is to say a retreat back to white privilege?”

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@bstewart1776

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@yhazony “Guy named Hussein”? What’s this?

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@bstewart1776

3 years

My latest @BulwarkOnline article is a plea against normalization with the Assad regime after it plumbed the depths of barbarism:

Don’t Normalize Syria

Pretending barbarism like Assad’s is normal will help make it so.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

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"The Education of an Idealist" is a curious title for a tale almost entirely bereft of idealism, as is the case with a new memoir by @AmbPower44 , which I've gently examined in @NRO :

The Education of a Cynic | National Review

Samantha Power’s new memoir unwittingly crystalizes the weakness and amorality of Obama’s foreign policy.

www.nationalreview.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

A forceful thread on what is unquestionably the greatest moral outrage of our time: America’s abandonment of the Syrian revolution.

Shadi Hamid

@shadihamid

5 years

1. What we are witnessing in Idlib is "one of the worst humanitarian emergencies" of the 9-year Syrian civil war. More than 3 years after the end of President Obama's tenure, Syrians are still paying dearly for his administration's inaction and indifference

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

Proof that courage on the battlefield is no guarantee in the political arena.

Dan Crenshaw

@DanCrenshawTX

4 years

The left-wing outrage is predictably over the top. The request here is simple: allow this case to be elevated to the Supreme Court, and let the Supreme Court make a determination. All cases should be heard, all investigations should be thorough. It is that simple.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

The square and the tower, to coin a term. cc @nfergus

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

“Trump’s core idea is exactly the opposite of Lincoln’s. Lincoln insisted in the throes of civil war that he was the president of the whole United States... Trump describe[s] riot and disorder as happening in “Biden’s America,” even when it happens under his presidency.”

David Frum

@davidfrum

4 years

Trump's own nomination acceptance - a dreadful speech, a masterful communication of who/what he is. Latest in @TheAtlantic

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

“Trump’s lies … remain a poison in our political lifeblood, and the prospect of a similar effort in 2024 lies before us.” Live not by lies.

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

Last week @nytdavidbrooks wrote of the global civic unrest that in its sweep and force is redolent of 1989. One of the most pregnant of these people's revolts is in Lebanon, which I write about today in @BulwarkOnline :

Pity the Revolution: The Future of Lebanon Hangs in the Balance

As Lebanon veers toward collapse, its people have risen up against a corrupt system.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

If you’ve read the slew of reflections on the anniversary of the Iraq war—including mine—I hope you will read one more, by my comrade and friend @faisalalmutar . If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

The Free Press

@TheFP

2 years

“I believe that the invasion was the necessary beginning of a long, tortuous, and still uncertain road out of a very dark past.” Faisal Saeed al Mutar lost his brother and his home during the Iraq War: still, he does not believe the war was a failure:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

The Iraq War casts a long shadow, but “there is still wisdom to be gained from the post 9/11 moment.” A shrewd meditation about the dangers of authoritarian power, then and now.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

3 years

Four core ideas from President George W. Bush's most controversial speech have survived as enduring foundations of U.S. security policy, @davidfrum writes:

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

1 year

To those who draw a false moral equivalency between Ukraine and Iraq—between Kherson and Fallujah—nota bene. The deliberate targeting of civilians during the evacuation of a city.

Francis Farrell

@francisjfarrell

1 year

Russia is deliberately shelling the square at the centre of evacuation operations in Kherson. Multiple incoming, reports of deaths, heard people shouting at the scene before leaving. This is a level of evil that I just can’t comprehend. (Photo from telegram)

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@bstewart1776

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I have long found @NickKristof ’s moralism aesthetically distasteful and intellectually spurious. I make my case in the context of his opposition to Israel’s war against Hamas:

Nicholas Kristof's Vapid Antiwar-ism

Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.

quillette.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

My @BulwarkOnline review of @CatherineBelton ’s “Putin’s People.” If you want to understand Russia’s mafia regime, this is a good place to start:

How Putin Took Over Russia

‘Putin’s People’ details the Russian autocrat and ex-KGB spook’s rise to power and efforts to reverse the outcome of the Cold War.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

As we circled perusing the suit selection, Biden didn’t hesitate to introduce himself. After some banter about sartorial tastes, he began offering pointers and compliments. I told him not to be so kind since I was a Republican (though not of the Trump variety, I added). 2/4

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

The Problem with Permitting Putin’s “Sphere of Influence.” My latest in @BulwarkOnline :

The Problem with Permitting Putin’s “Sphere of Influence”

In the face of aggressive, acquisitive war, will the free world stand together or stand aside?

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

2 years

Reminder to conservative nationalists: There's more realist wisdom in the "cosmopolitan" EU than in the national capitals of Europe.

Insider podcast

@InsiderCz

2 years

„No politician in Germany has said or would have said, that Russia needs to lose,“ says @MacaesBruno . Why does @vonderleyen behave differently than the other German politicians? Do we need a more powerful @EU_Commission to tackle Russia? Listen to Bruno in the new @InsiderCz ⤵️

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

This just doesn't ring true. I've personally met both Stalinist *and* Maoist professors in New Haven. Though now that I think of it, there was nary a post-Trotskyite Luxemburgist to be found.

James Freeman

@FreemanWSJ

5 years

Yale Prof Estimates Faculty Political Diversity at ‘0%’ via @WSJ

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

6 years

If you've devoured @FaudaNetflix , consider picking up "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor." What Fauda does on screen @YKleinHalevi does in print: reminds us that no side is beneath dignity and none has a monopoly on truth.

Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

6 years

“To ward off a nightmare for both Israelis and Palestinians, it is incumbent for each to curtail their own dream.” My review of @YKleinHalevi ’s “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

In the matter of impeachment, Democrats may be harming their electoral chances, but Republicans are harming our system of government. My argument in @BulwarkOnline :

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

One of the refrains we keep hearing is that Putin must be mad. As I argue in @BulwarkOnline , this rationalist conceit is a fallacy:

Putin’s No Madman

His hands are covered in blood, but it’s wrong to say he’s acting irrationally.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

3 years

@guypbenson Listen to the video. Biden doesn’t say Americans are “confused.” He says there’s “a lot of confusion.”

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

My latest article at @BulwarkOnline : Authoritarians are taking advantage of the pandemic. Their increasing assertiveness demands a robust democratic response:

A Democratic Renaissance

Authoritarians are taking advantage of the pandemic. Their increasing assertiveness demands a robust democratic response.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

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��To ward off a nightmare for both Israelis and Palestinians, it is incumbent for each to curtail their own dream.” My review of @YKleinHalevi ’s “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”

Both Sides Now: A Review of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor | National Review

A new book insists on accommodating both Israel’s legitimacy and the Palestinians’ national sovereignty.

www.nationalreview.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

10 years

Krauthammer eviscerates looming Iran deal: "We are on the cusp of an epic capitulation. History will not be kind." http://t.co/lZE2dlhGxa

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

4 years

"Chinese power and perfidy will be repelled by a robust international alliance organized and led by the United States, or it will not be repelled at all." My argument in @BulwarkOnline :

China Being Wrong Doesn’t Make Trump Right

Trump’s retreat from global responsibility has enabled China’s malevolence.

www.thebulwark.com

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Brian Stewart

@bstewart1776

5 years

Yet another hideous outbreak of anti-Semitism in Europe. I recently reviewed a manual drawn up to combat this interminable plague, which gives me little satisfaction to share:

Anti-Semitism: The Fight That Never Flags | National Review

Bari Weiss’s book is a bold summons to confront humanity’s oldest hatred.

www.nationalreview.com

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

5 years

Israeli student beaten on Paris Metro train after he was heard speaking Hebrew

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