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@markdtooley

@markdtooley

President @theird, Editor @provmagazine, Convener @new_whigs, Collator @methodistview, Author @dcpeaceconvo61

Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@markdtooley@markdtooley·
@cyrano54 Nothing he accomplished was possible absent public opinion to which he was always sensitive, and which he skillfully managed.
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Human Third Rail@cyrano54·
@markdtooley Abe did a lot of unpopular things during the Civil War, including the Emancipation Proclamation. His management of the second-tier states to hold together the Union was laudable, but many times the second-tier states were not antislavery and constantly threatened to secede.
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SamuelGoldman@SWGoldman·
3 overlapping hypotheses: 1) the Soviet Union provided a reality check to leftish political imagination; 2) reduced funding for defense/natsec adjacent fields and approaches; 3) generational replacement of scholars formed by WW2 and the early Cold War.
Marian L Tupy@Marian_L_Tupy

"All disciplines showed leftward movement between 1990 and 2024." So, the collapse of communism resulted in academia turning MORE left-wing. I welcome intelligent explanations as to why that may have been the case. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Michael Warburton
Michael Warburton@TheMonologist·
RAY BOLGER (best known for playing the ‘Scarecrow’ / ‘Hunk’ in ‘The Wizard Of Oz’) lays it down with George Washington & Abraham Lincoln in this clip from APRIL IN PARIS (1953) The creativity, the imagination & the execution is just outstanding
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Always controversial & elected only with 43%, Nixon still rallied America for his Vietnam policy in his 1969 "Great Silent Majority," speech, which got 77% approval. In polarized USA, rallying the country this way may no longer be possible. But it should be tried.
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@cyrano54 "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." ...Abe Lincoln
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Human Third Rail@cyrano54·
@markdtooley Truth and the choice to do the right thing should never require "popularity". If it is right, then you do it no matter what people think. The funny part is that if you win, everyone will jump on the bandwagon later.
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During 6 weeks of 1991 Persian Gulf war, with 700,000 U.S. troops and hundreds thousands more Allied troops, the Defense Secretary was a careful, measured, judicious & reassuring public presence, helping to ensure nearly 80% of Americans supported the war.
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@markdtooley@markdtooley·
Hypothesis: America sorely misses Civil Religion, a mostly Protestant invention that inclusively invited all citizens into the spirituality of the national project without requiring any to abandon their own religious distinctives.
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James Diddams
James Diddams@JamesDiddams·
Great, very nuanced discussion on whether or not the Iran War will prove make the Middle East more stable than its been in generations or be ultimately self-defeating
Providence Magazine@ProvMagazine

While Iran’s theocratic regime should be overturned, will Operation Epic Fury ultimately bring this goal closer to fruition or exhaust the patience of the American electorate with wars in the Middle East? @mlivecche @markdtooley @rwnicholson_ providencemag.com/podcast/ep-105…

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Rebeccah Heinrichs
Rebeccah Heinrichs@RLHeinrichs·
Although there’s a lot of focus on the antisemitism from this wing on the right, it’s really important to understand how they’re wielding it. It’s to speed along declinism and to turn the U.S. inward, accepting CCP power at our expense.
The Economist@TheEconomist

“The US is not going to defend and cannot defend Taiwan.” @TuckerCarlson tells @zannymb that America has reached the limits of its power and has to now share it with China. Watch the full Insider interview: econ.st/4dDjBlU

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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ·
From @WSJopinion: America bombs Iran and suddenly Zelensky holds the aces. “You don’t have the cards,” Trump said a year ago. Today U.S. allies implore Ukraine for drone help, writes @BHL. on.wsj.com/4rDHux2
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Daniel Dreisbach
Daniel Dreisbach@d3bach·
20 March 1779: pray that God “will grant…Freedom to those who are in Bondage, & Comfort to the Afflicted: That he will...extend the Influence of True Religion, & give us that Peace of Mind which the World cannot give.” Congress, PROCLAMATION for “Fasting, Humiliation & Prayer.”
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Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson@mikenelson586·
For context, in May 2003 the Iraq War had 74% approval The President needs to clarify the objectives/endstate of the fight & communicate w/ the American people, rather than think some sophmoric social media posts or whining about the press from SecDef will be enough to get by
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I cannot recall any military action of last 80 years that started with such low approval. Public opinion in war is very important. Successful statecraft requires persuasion.

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@markjonesjr I said last 80 years. Also public opinion for war after Ft Sumter was very high.
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Luke Coffey
Luke Coffey@LukeDCoffey·
Completely made up
Kateryna Lisunova@KaterynaLis

🚨TRUMP: We have a lot of ammunition, but it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine. “We wanna have a good… We wanna have vast amounts of ammunition, which we have right now. We have a lot of ammunition, but it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine. They gave so much. You know, Biden gave $350 billion worth of cash and military equipment to Ukraine, and he didn't rebuild anything. Fortunately, we have a lot. We have a tremendous, unlimited supply of what you'd call middle and upper middle armaments and military equipment. Munitions, armaments, but munitions in particular” - President Trump on Thursday, March 19th, 2026.

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