• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    Except pugjesus did describe ‘realistic candidate’ as one with no contrary views:

    No realistic candidate has contrary views.

    Therefore

    There are no realistic candidates with contrary views.

    Regardless, begging the question doesn’t necessarily need to be circular, just that the speaker assumes some premise that hasn’t been proven to be true. Namely that candidates with a different view on Israel are not “realistic”, either because of that view or because they are not the ‘presumptive’ nominee (and are therefore not realistic). In either case, the framing of the question was completely disingenuous.