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A gadget has occurred in this error. Fiat vox veritatis ruat caelum.

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    1. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      Here, I learn what the Civil War was actually about. Can Permanent Revolution tolerate a federal structure? It cannot. If individual states are allowed to reject the insanity, they will - whole and entire. Hence the """federal""" government must be supreme.

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    2. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "The only good or justice that prevails is the good or justice of the stronger." This error I will forgive, as it's easy to make. In fact, the justice of the stronger is what always obtains.

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    3. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "Hence, among us as well, subjection by force is replacing conviction by argument." Argument was always a myth. Have to say I'm not impressed when folk, presented with contrary evidence, pretend the world changed so they don't have to change their mind.

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    4. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "This forced the recognition that there exists a remarkably uniform, bipartisan, Progressive ruling class" This has happened many times in American history. There was nothing special about 2008, which is why the Party saw no reason to hesitate.

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    5. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "They distrust elections because they think that power should be in expert hands" A distrust informed by experience.

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    6. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "The books they read pretend to argue scientifically that the rest of Americans are racist, sexist, maybe fascists, but above all stupid." As a matter of fact, American who manage to get into university largely have a higher IQ than ones that don't.

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    7. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      Basically the pattern here is this: Thucydides managed to see revolution without becoming himself a revolutionary. Codevilla, by contrast, did not, and is now forced to e.g. twist words away from their ordinary meanings.

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    8. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "the rapidity with which our revolution’s logic has unfolded—have surprised and dismayed even those of us who realized that America had abandoned its republican past." Read your Moldbug, you pretentious, insular little twat.

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    9. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "they constitute cold civil war against the voters, even coups d’etat." Even the slower students are realizing that America is not a democracy. If only they didn't pretend the world had changed, to forestall having to change their minds about the past.

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    10. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "Trump’s accession to the agencies’ assertion of the power to decide with whom he may or may not speak of the nation’s secrets radically decreased the number and quality of appointees." This is why, even on days I lack any tolerance, I soldier on through such pieces.

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      Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
      Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

      "Thus do such judges exercise the powers of the president and Congress." Indeed. Separation of powers is a myth. Technically it can be temporarily true, but eventually one power or another must be de facto the supreme power.

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        2. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Currently the slower students are finding out that, much like a bureaucracy's head loses power to someone somewhat lower down the org chart, the Supreme court's total supremacy has been delegated to lower circuits.

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        3. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "The revolutionary import of the ruling class’ abandonment of moral and legal restraint in its effort to reverse election results cannot be exaggerated." Ironically, if people like Codevilla hadn't said anything, it could very easily be exaggerated.

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        4. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Conservative speakers on campuses routinely expect “protests” in which people get hurt." Scare quotes are okay, but better to name the thing: they are paramilitary soldiers. As is usual in outbreaks of genuine democracy.

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        5. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Revolution is itself a proggified word. It actually means literal revolution: that the high be cast down, that the low be brought high. The intra-elite squabbles which Codevilla describes are not revolutions, and don't even get within spitting distance of deserving such gravitas.

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        6. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "You may have won the last election, said the ruling class. But we’re still in charge. Indeed, they are." Codevilla, representing the slower students, discovers the Cathedral.

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        7. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Establishment Republicans were driven to admit that their kind could no longer buy the Left’s comity." Republicants would have remained can't-do folk, except Trump has shamed them into sheepishly and partially rediscovering their testicles.

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        8. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "by death-gripping their privileges;" There's murder, arson, and jaywalking, and then there's Codevilla's jaywalking, littering, suicide bombing, and petty vandalism.

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        9. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "simply protested the bipartisan ruling class’s continued rule""signing the $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that continued financing every Progressive group" Yes. Trump is trying not to throw the first punch. He's hoping to pull on America the same trick he pulled on North Korea.

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        10. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Trump does not realize he is asking the Party of Permanent Revolution to give up Revolution.

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        11. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Trump’s rousing speeches feed the body politic as empty calories feed the human body." The slower students discover the principle of folk activism.

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        12. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Though doubtless, having failed to give it a name, they will quickly forget it. Though even if they did give it a name, the name would be an abomination before all communication.

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        13. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Who will accept losing the next elections? Odds are that neither the Left nor, now, the Right will accept it." The right holds no institutional power, so their rejection would come in the form of petulant weeping.

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        14. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "and that a substantial portion of the Senate’s Republican majority would be friendly to it." Yes. Generations of loser/outer Party selection at work.

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        15. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 29
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "That would leave the 2016 electorate’s defense to Trump—who would be forced to fully deploy Presidential powers" And as a result, throw the first punch. Most likely leading to Emperor (Imperator, meaning literally 'commander') Trump, as per @jamesd23x.

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        16. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "What would a fully re-empowered ruling class that had tasted the possibility of dis-empowerment do to preclude anything like that ever happening again?" They can't disestablish democracy, or they will face immediate rebellion.

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        17. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          If they do anyway and crush the rebellion, the official renunciation of democracy will in fact be a step toward stability and prosperity. If they don't disestablish democracy, they can be voted out again.

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        18. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Codevilla is a particular class of scholar, who is capable of accurately and coherently conveying their personal observations but little else. They cannot generalize, nor can they infer future events. They are a critical operative, but basically a lab rat.

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        19. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "defusing conflict between them by means of loosening relations between the states such that these become looser than existed prior to the Civil War." Sorry. As above, the Permanent Revolution is aware they can't allow separation.

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        20. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Prior to Progressivism, the American political tradition had not been about imposing any way of life on anyone." ...hmm? Do I hear hyenas? They are laughing. A lot.

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        21. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "it may be possible to convince it to switch from its present offensive mode to a defensive one." Ironically the correct way to deal with proggies would be to pay them off. Find out who loses their job from The Wall, and retire them at 100% their current wage. Maybe even 120%.

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        22. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Of course this is no more politically possible than it's politically possible to demolish a large New York building while people are still inside, to avoid having it fall uncontrolled across other inhabited buildings.

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        23. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Were this to be the happy case, the conservative side of American life, operating from a dominant position, might be able to obtain agreement to some form of true federalism." You just keep stepping in it, don't you Codevilla?

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        24. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          America also can't allow separation because: Trade routes are intricately interlinked and are owned by political supporters. Who gets the debt? Who gets The Bombs? Frankly, separation is just too much work for an exhausted Late Empire.

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        25. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "Unattainable, and gone forever, is the whole American Republic that had existed for some 200 years after 1776." Ignorance is bliss. Maybe -don't- read your Moldbug: you're not emotionally robust enough to handle it.

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        26. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          "For some, laws are already on the books (18 USC I/29/611)" "A dying Empire accumulates laws the way a dying man accumulates remedies."

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        27. Alrenous‏ @Alrenous Oct 30
          Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness

          Anyway, that's all for Codevilla's errors calling forth correction.

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