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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I enjoy being alive but part of me wants to visit the Elysium Fields so I can ask Jefferson and Paine what they think about right-wing historians who say Revolution was led by pious monarchists who wanted to create a Christian polity.
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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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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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"When the real aim had been achieved, when the bourgeois transformation of English society had been accomplished, Locke supplanted Habakkuk."
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Karl & Fredie knew a thing or two.
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