Greater. Much bigger player in the show. Liked the Ford-Taft poster in last post-Lindbergh election scene. Perfect.
Yeah, the point of the coda is that everything is going back to normal after the Lindbergh interlude. Sort of like some post-Trump restoration fantasies among centrists.
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Even that’s not clear. Ford-Taft might well win.
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The TV show ends ambiguously. The novel offers a pure restorationist fantasy
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Centrist fantasies? I incline to a modified Gattopardo view: much will change so that most things can remain the same. The counter-fantasy is that crisis-induced radical change ipso facto yields greater justice. Forgive me my doubts.
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@adam_tooze take on gattopardo conservatism is good - https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1243944893950709760 … - it won’t work (nor did it work particularly in the original novel)
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