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    1. 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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      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. Alex Bond‏ @alexjbond 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Given Anton's tens of thousands of posts on mens fashion online forums, I hope his fan fic at least gets into how stylish the uniforms are

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        2. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 23 Jul 2021
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          Largely right, but I would dispute the idea that the North in 1860 was any more united than California or liberal America is now. Plenty of slavery apologists or ignorers in the North, it was the Confederacy that united themhttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1418600523238973440?s=20 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          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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        3. XLProfessor‏ @XLProfessor 23 Jul 2021
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          XLProfessor Retweeted XLProfessor

          Would also dispute any notion that today's Confederates would be able to bring their full population to bear any more than the 1861 were. Today's Confederate states don't control their own cities, while today's Union states have weak hinterlandshttps://twitter.com/XLProfessor/status/1418601843257663489?s=20 …

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          Largely right, but I would dispute the idea that the North in 1860 was any more united than California or liberal America is now. Plenty of slavery apologists or ignorers in the North, it was the Confederacy that united them https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1418600523238973440?s=20 …
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        2. Chris Adamson‏ @invalidname 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Edit: you’ve got an extra “is” in this sentence.pic.twitter.com/cKfM9SbcVR

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        3. The Web of Evil‏ @webofevil 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @invalidname @HeerJeet

          Edit: towards the end of the para beginning "The term 'deracination'", should that be "disadvantage to the North"?

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        2. Brian Lyman‏Verified account @lyman_brian 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          There was quite a bit of coercion involved in secession and then maintaining the Confederacy. The historian Stephanie McCurry has documented how South Carolina vigilante societies used violence to intimidate Unionist voices for over a year before the state seceded.

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        3. Andy JB‏ @andrewbloomberg 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @lyman_brian @HeerJeet

          When you combine the unionists with the enslaved majority of South Carolina in 1860, I think it's fair to say that a vast majority of the state's population was opposed to secession.

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        2. Brynn Tannehill‏ @BrynnTannehill 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I've tried to game these scenarios out. Honestly, the most plausible secession scenario is that the GOP steals the 2024 election by overturning to 2024 election, and some blue states stop recognizing the legitimacy of the federal government. Red states are glad to see them leave

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        3. surplus individual‏ @An_Eager_Foil 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @BrynnTannehill @HeerJeet

          The "glad to see them leave" bit is inaccurate. They want to dominate the rest of us, and letting the bluer states go away would rob them of that. If the election of 2024 is stolen in that manner, it's blood either way.

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        2. Brynn Tannehill‏ @BrynnTannehill 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          The result: mutual parting of the ways, and Balkanization, as blue states don't want to participate in a non-democratic (read: single party state) union where elections are rigged. Red states are happy to see them go away, and take their values with them.

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        3. nuke the filibuster‏ @MartinWaits 23 Jul 2021
          Replying to @BrynnTannehill @HeerJeet

          The result needs to be a new Reconstruction. There are too many good people in red states for blue states to just abandon them.

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