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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2021

    1. In an ideal world, no one would know who Michael Anton is. In our vale of tears, he's the author of a hugely influential essay (Flight 93 Election) & served on National Security Council. So when Anton licks his chops at thought of coming civil war, worth some attention.pic.twitter.com/ZW2zOtXMau

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2021

        2. Anton's new Civil War fan fiction (manly Texas defeating the wimps of California) is of the same genre as his famous Flight 93 essay which did so much to bring right around to Trump: both exercises in LARPing politics: putting oneself in heroic crisis moment.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2021

        3. Anton's latest piece is absurd on many levels but one interesting thing is that it replicates the same fantasies that secessionists had in 1850s: that they were side of virility & so would easily win the war.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2021

        4. I'm not a huge Gone With the Wind fan, but even that bit of plantation apologia mocked the Confederates on that point in this terrific scene:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NABxlx2hk …

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Jul 2021

        5. Some thoughts on Anton's Civil War fantasies -- their absurdity and the mythology they draw on:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/civil-war-games?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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      1. Andrew Montes‏ @__andrew_m 23 Jul 2021
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        At least there's shade in the vale

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      2. Andy JB‏ @andrewbloomberg 23 Jul 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This romanticized civil war fantasy is obviously bad and scary for a whole lot of reasons but one of them is that any hypothetical second American civil war would be very messy, and largely within rather than between states.

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      3. Dan Carmell  🇺🇦  🏳️‍🌈‏ @dan_carmell 23 Jul 2021
        Replying to @andrewbloomberg @HeerJeet

        I think in many areas where one side is much stronger, it would resemble a pogrom more than insurrection or war.

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      2. Charnold‏ @charnold01 23 Jul 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Yeah you always pick the side with money in a civil war. But honestly a 25 year long rural Cold War is just as bad. Why we really should look at a constitutional convention to create a loser confederation that allows for blue states to better leverage their monetary power.

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      3. Fred Zimmerman‏ @fredzannarbor 23 Jul 2021
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        "You always pick the side with money" didn't work too well for the Tsar of Russia ... not a reliable rule of thumb. Sometimes the winner is the side that's angriest.

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      1. Mark Raggett‏ @mark_raggett 23 Jul 2021
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        There was only one "substantial difference" between white Northerners and white Southerners, huh? And that was the only substantial (enforced) difference that existed in American society at the time I guess?

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