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My new book is now available from @uofmpress. You can read it online for free, but hope you will consider buying a copy as well/instead. Cool cover, right?
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Walter Hatch
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Walter Hatch
@walterfhatch
political scientist (affiliated with Colby College, U WA Jackson School, Harvard RIJS); human rights activist; dangerous “globalist;” blocked by Chris Rufo
Seattle, WA Beigetreten Haziran 2016
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Imagine believing this. What would it say about your grasp on reality?
David M. McIntosh@DavidMMcintosh
Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024. The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162. That's 64% of all murders.
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@BitcoinSapiens Except that he's wrong. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid. The only way they might receive federal benefits is through visits to emergency rooms, which are not allowed to reject comers. Do we really want to ration care in crisis situations?
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Abby Phillip: “Medicaid is still not going to illegal immigrants, Scott.”
Scott Jennings: “It is, it really does.”
Abby Phillip: “It’s not.”
Scott Jennings: “It really does in several blue states.”
Abby Phillip: “Scott, no, it’s not... The part of the bill that deals with the money that goes to states doesn’t say anything about their immigration policy... Medicaid does not go to undocumented immigrants. SNAP does not go to undocumented immigrants.”
Scott Jennings: “It doesn’t matter how many times you say it. It absolutely does.”
Scott is once again right, and CNN host Abby Phillip is delusional.
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@JamesSurowiecki The misuse of data to spread hatred is so friggin' irresponsible. But totally unsurprising. Sadly.
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It's impossible to express how utterly deluded and detached from reality you have to be to believe that illegal immigrants committed 13,000 murders - 65% of all murders - in the US in 2024. That number comes from Benny Johnson completely misinterpreting or misrepresenting ICE data in order to paint a picture of an illegal-immigrant murder wave that has no connection to reality.
David M. McIntosh@DavidMMcintosh
Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024. The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162. That's 64% of all murders.
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This is so irresponsible. Immigrants, including undocumented ones, commit fewer violent crimes than natives here.
David M. McIntosh@DavidMMcintosh
Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024. The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162. That's 64% of all murders.
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Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024.
The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162.
That's 64% of all murders.
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@mcelarier Yeah, I was responding to Sam’s post, which you retweeted. He likens Prof. Fani’s case to very different cases.
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@walterfhatch That is exactly what Laila's story says, if you click through.
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@SaveWANow @hannahkrieg Wrong. The new law exempts many additional small businesses from the B&O tax.
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@hannahkrieg The discourse in this thread is hilarious. Washington business owners already pay more than their fair share in taxes through the B&O tax. The income tax is not going to reduce or eliminate sales tax or B&O tax.…
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One thing that is frustrating about The Discourse about millionaires tax is Democrats pretending they don't have the goal of doing a larger, progressive income tax
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@savagecitizens @skaushik100 @KeithNHumphreys Hi Rachel. Yeah, I’m not a fan of City Journal - does that make me “arrogant?” lol
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@walterfhatch @skaushik100 @KeithNHumphreys Professor Hatch is another arrogant academic more concerned with who writes for a publication than in putting forth and standing up for the policies we need to stop the deaths of millions of addicts and the destruction of Seattles neighborhoods, businesses and tax base.
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I’m psyched to report that we have a BCB episode dropping in the next couple of days with Stanford prof @KeithNHumphreys, the country’s most prominent drug policy expert (and friend o’ the pod!), on what the mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Philly are doing to reset their cities’ approaches to street level addition, and why this could set a trend in blue cities.
Taped it last week but on point with Keith’s @CityJournal piece that dropped today.
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys
In @CityJournal, I profile three Democratic-led cities (San Francisco, San Jose, and Philadelphia) which are doing sensible things about crime and drugs and finding that voters appreciate it (even if activists don't). city-journal.org/article/democr…
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@skaushik100 @KeithNHumphreys Prof. Humphreys: You sound like a very accomplished academic. Forgive me for being allergic to certain publications that reek of authoritarianism.
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@skaushik100 @KeithNHumphreys City Journal? Like Chris Rufo's favorite venue?
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Just had a brief phone call with President Trump. He said Iran wants "to settle." And he reiterated the war is going well— "unbelievably well."
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@skaushik100 Kamala Harris religiously avoided identity politics and was not super-partisan.
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Hmmm… I seem to recall we did run a Black guy who won, twice.
How about instead of worrying about the candidate’s identity Dems look for candidates that articulate a broadly appealing, universalist message the way Obama did, as opposed to candidates (of whatever identity) who lean into racialist or screechily partisan messaging?
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
AXIOS: Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, White, Christian man. Former first lady Michelle Obama fueled such talk recently, saying the U.S. is "not ready for a woman." Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of "It has to be a white guy." axios.com/2026/03/29/som…
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First time I’ve blocked someone on X.
In the same way that woke racialists did serious political harm to the Democratic Party though the 2010s, the branding problem white nativist identitarians like this are creating for Republicans is hugely growing.
Greyson@AmericanGreyson
@skaushik100 Go back to India
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My book is coming out in Japanese.
book.asahi.com/jinbun/article…
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@SerfyMcDoomscrl @skaushik100 @poorlyreasoned I LOVE these stupid categories -- "peak woke" (sounds like peak oil). Curious: Did the Trumpist movement for closing U.S. borders also win because of a triumph of "western liberal values?" Or should we blame that one (too) on the failure of "wokeism?"
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@walterfhatch @skaushik100 @poorlyreasoned The defining feature of peak woke is the violation of liberalism for dogmatic loyalty to ideology. The movements you reference violated conservatism but won Americans over through stronger claims to western liberal values. America rejects the sophistry and coercion of wokeism.
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I get accused of being a “centrist” (or worse) all the time, but I’m really just an unreconstructed lib of the sort that was mainstream on the left circa 2010.
During the 2010s, I missed the identity train, recoiled from the cultural chauvinism of the very online, and stuck with the belief that individualism is better than collectivism.
But I still think class is real and inequality is a problem, striving to accept people as they are is a matter of basic human decency, and that the social project of our time should be to expand the definition of what it is to be an American to encompass the growing diversity of our society.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
The transformation of liberals into "progressives" since 2013 has seriously been the worst thing to happen to American culture in my lifetime. Just absolutely gutted so much of what was good about this country. End of a golden age.
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@skaushik100 @poorlyreasoned There always has been a tension but also a complementarity between the forces of radical social change and liberal incrementalism in America (and elsewhere). Most of the older white liberals screaming about "wokeism" today got their feelings hurt by a younger radical.
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@walterfhatch @poorlyreasoned Your definition of woke is then different from mine. Those victories yo cite were won via the social project of American liberalism, which the “woke” movement of the 2010s - drawing on a largely separate, radical intellectual tradition - denounced as a failure.
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@skaushik100 @poorlyreasoned Most of the social progress in this country -- end of slavery, voting rights for women, civil rights, gender equality, same sex marriage, gay rights, trans rights, etc etc etc -- has been hard fought and won through "woke" activism that led to political and cultural change.
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@walterfhatch @poorlyreasoned I know you think that, Walter. But why do you think it’s good? Like, what are the downstream results that makes you think wokeism (the very real backlash issues aside) produces better outcomes from marginalized people?
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@skaushik100 @poorlyreasoned It seems unsurprising that a political consultant would want to avoid "alienating the normies." But I'm glad MLK and other activists do this all the time.
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Identity is real, but building and entire social and cultural order around identity differences and divides takes us very quickly to some fundamentally illiberal (really, anti-liberal and anti-universal) places and produces fantastically bad outcomes when judged against the foundational norms and beliefs of traditional American culture.
As a mechanism of social uplift for the marginalized it’s a failure, because it profoundly alienates the normies and provokes resentment and backlash. As a political program for the American left it’s a straight up disaster, and contributed significantly to the re-election of Trump.
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