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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Right, it's more than just rhetoric -- it's the condition that even in a revolutionary situation people understand what is happening through the prism of existing political language and categories.
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Patriot royalism could never secure its ostensible aims, which is why it was long rejected as unserious. Most probably it was serious but quickly broke down in the face of quick evidence of its impracticality.
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