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