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Comment by pessimizer

5 days ago

> bringing up a whataboutism

This is red-baiting.

> while the supreme court runs roughshod over current law

This is question-begging.

> We need these stout champions of conservatism because the left is so crazy that we need to check them, that's why we need to rewrite the constitution to fit whatever trump is doing this week, right?

This is straw-manning.

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