It took mild criticism of the monarchy by a woman of color to turn the whole of American conservatism into throne-and-altar tories.https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1372979817931538434 …
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No, but I do remember an entire movement organized around the Tea Party and the American Revolution a scant ten years ago!
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I think after a 45 year gap you’re allowed to treat public displays of fealty to the monarchy as a relatively new thing
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You guys are going to provoke me to doing a 25-post thread on the history of monarchism in the American right.
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the entire series demands a proper re-examination and yes, sigh, this is on my to-do list
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TBH, after delving back into the history of the French Revolution recently, I found myself sympathizing with the constitutional monarchists much more than I did in my wayward youth. Too bad Louis XVI was so catastrophically ill-suited to the occasion.
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