Very interesting post on new right-wing historical revisionists who argue the American Revolution was pro-monarchical. Perhaps of interest to @MatthewSitman & @SamAdlerBell The divine right of wingnutshttps://timothynoah.substack.com/p/the-divine-right-of-wingnuts?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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this would be cool if jefferson were not almost certainly in hell
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One way to think about this is that when people make a revolution they often argue it is a restoration of lost virtues. I think the Bolingbroke Patriot King stuff was convenient as a critique of status quo.
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You would find out the colonial linguistic equivalent of "Are you fucking KIDDING me?"
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Bring Voltaire and Moliere to that dinner party. Should be fun.
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What do you think would make Jefferson’s heads explode faster: the fact that the political descendants of his agrarianism believe the above, or the fact that there was a black president and the current Vice President is mixed black and Indian, and a woman?
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