"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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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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