This is also why progressive politicos wind up on the wring side of the so-called 80-20 issues. In their circles it seems like 0-100, few disagree and those who do don’t want to invite ostracism by saying so. The bubble is good for breeding activists, not so good for winning on

@ProfDBernstein Half true. He & Ben both have a whole set of facts at their fingertips. Very quick on their feet. And, no criticism of Ben (his style works too), but Charlie is much more welcoming.

@GovDeeply I don’t disagree. I said they’re sharp witted, and part of giving competent and coherent answers is having facts at your disposal

@ProfDBernstein I haven’t seen much of these debates, but Shapiro is a 40 year old Harvard Law School graduate. It’s not surprising that he might look good arguing with 19 year-old kids who have only paid attention to politics for a year or two.

@TheMigh10299553 You seem to have missed the entire point of my tweet. Read it again.

@ProfDBernstein @razibkhan IndisepensibleOpposition.pdf

@ProfDBernstein It's been said before that conservatives know more about the Left's arguments because we hear them all the time. Whereas the Left never listens to the Right. Kirk was hardly perfect but he got better as time went on and matured. He had grown and was growing as a person. I

@ProfDBernstein Lol. When Charlie Kirk is seen as a sharp-witted intellectual, we truly are lost as a people. Ben Shapiro, maybe, but Charlie Kirk was one grade above a shit-poster.

@ProfDBernstein "in large part" lol

@ProfDBernstein Disagree. Charlie just repeated talking points he got from other folks. He couldn't effectively move folks on any position using his own thoughts. He also used debate tactics like audience laughter or cutting off the mic. He didn't debate the far right like Nick F.

@ProfDBernstein Or maybe they made a living off being in their late 20's-30's and posting selectively edited videos of them debating people almost a decade younger than them who also don't obsess over debating the way they did.

@ProfDBernstein When your explanatory scheme for effectiveness is to posit ‘sharp-witted, coherent and confident’ vs ‘ideological bubble’, the asymmetry alone is enough to suspect the explanation is telling only half the story.

@ProfDBernstein None of them have heard ANY responses to their views, because they don’t don’t talk to anyone who disagrees. Hence the hysteria, hyperbole & vitriol spewing from so many of them.

@ProfDBernstein But he got badly battered once he faced properly prepared students.

@ProfDBernstein @trendisgood charlie

@ProfDBernstein "Kramer's effectiveness in karate was due to the fact that the dojo youth are in a bubble bereft of skilled opponents" https://youtu.be/7t8xwpW8gJQ?s...

@ProfDBernstein It was in large part because most people have emotional responses and ideas that they haven't fully developed into coherent debatable positions and so the "man on the street" is pretty easy to trip up if the interviewer has prepped.

@ProfDBernstein The irony is by creating that bubble college professors are setting their students up to fail.

@ProfDBernstein Have they heard sharp-witted liberals provide confident and coherent responses to basic political controversies? I think that there is a dearth of any meaningful dialogue.

@ProfDBernstein This post needs to be shared with all who oppose increasing viewpoint diversity on college campuses.

@ProfDBernstein @neoavatara This is the correct response to the complaint that he debated college kids who were outmatched. Their professors are influencing these kids uncontested if they aren’t hearing counter arguments.

@ProfDBernstein @WokeRightLs His debates were never really debates because Charlie never listened to what the other person was saying. Frankly, it's good that young, impressionable people won't be subjected to abhorrent views such as these below.

@ProfDBernstein This is very true but it’s not just the campus left Living most of my life in liberal areas, the caricature liberals have constructed of what a conservative is and what conservatives believe in is straight up delusion It is so divorced from reality, it’s an different planet