The only goal of the Vancers is purging the GOP of "neocons," "Israel Firsters," etc. They don't care about Iran, "affordability," "postliberalism," or winning elections--losing might equally help with the purge. It's a putsch within the party. This makes sense of all they do.
@slooperbia50068 It's an angry time.
@slooperbia50068 Don't know if you've seen this:
Doesn't look to me like the GABlog survived the transition.
@slooperbia50068 Do you see it somewhere on the page?
@slooperbia50068 Where do you see it?
@slooperbia50068 Yes
@slooperbia50068 Yes that’s the opening page. I don’t see the GABlog.
@slooperbia50068 It looks that way to me.
@slooperbia50068 We have a Center Study site, so it's all preserved and available. The most parsimonious explanation is that Gans doesn't want the GABlog to be included within GA.
@slooperbia50068 Through Zack Baker's excellence.
@slooperbia50068 You raise the question of the relation between parsimony and presupposition. Occam's razor cuts at one point but must presuppose all the other points, or hold them constant.
@slooperbia50068 I think the originary hypothesis completes the linguistic turn by identifying a center at the origin of language--rather than slippage and decentering. The center is the source of power, but as indebtedness and exchange. What is "absolute" is that the center is occupied, even if
@slooperbia50068 negatively, through furious attempts to accuse others of usurping it.
@slooperbia50068 I've told you that I take the limitations on this site as a spur to discipline my writing and be more laconic.
@slooperbia50068 By the way, I've reposted this but the way this site seems to work I don't know for sure if you've seen it. It's paywalled, but I'll email you the essay.
@slooperbia50068 I don't know but I don't say that's the only goal, for anyone.