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Democrats are in trouble if more Republicans start listening to you.

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Regarding Justice Barrett, I saw a tweet that referred to her as Amy Commie Barrett. Little do they know that her decision would've found concurrence with virtually every conservative justice and judge, as it is consistent with the jurisprudence favored by conservatives. The problem with many of these "freedom without responsibility 'conservatives'", is that they are so fixated on outcomes that they start eschewing the principles of Federalism. They would have no problem with expanding the power and reach of the Federal government to achieve these desired outcomes rather than petitioning the university, local and state governments for policy changes. Good for Justice Barrett for putting a lid to these self-professed conservatives wanting policy legislated from the bench.

Julie Kelly is one of the nastiest voices among the right that I've seen. I think she ranks right up there with Michelle Malkin. A slight whiff of criticism, no matter how constructive it is, is responded with extremely acidic vitriol from Kelly. She makes a lot of the most hardcore and intransigent MAGA fans look conciliatory and magnanimous in comparison.

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You made a very good point in that odious peddlers of misinformation and lies such as grifters, conspiracy theorists, snake-oil salesman, anti-vaxxers, election truthers, among others, will simply go underground to their echo chambers if banned from having their views aired out in the open. Extremists get a lot of fuel and relevance from these echo chambers, which allows their toxic views to metastasize unchallenged until these views spread so far and wide to where it becomes very problematic to our society. Obviously, there are cases when people need to be banned from social media platforms, but I think that these should be the exception, than the rule. At least when Alex Berenson spreads his lies about the Covid-19 on a visible platform like Twitter, we can expose and debunk his lies out in the open.

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Sounds about right. So long as Justice Barrett and the rest of the Supremes are consistent when President Joe attempts to override state policies regarding masking and vaccines.

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