Any competent historians of the future, trying to explain US decline, will be a lot less interested in the January 6 losers than they will in the 2008 financial crisis and the Iraq and Afghan Wars.
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Agree, George Black (
@georgehsblack ) traces a convincing through-line from Vietnam to Jan 6 here https://washingtonspectator.org/vietnam-to-the-capitol-steps/ … in@WashSpecThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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March 19, 2003, or even September 11th, 2001 were accelerants of a process that had already begun in the '80s. The WOT made unacceptable things ( like torture and killing civilians) acceptable. And thanks to the rise of Fox News - propaganda was immense.
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"The Beer Hall Putsch is of much less interest to historians than the inflation crisis"
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lol exactly. it takes a lot of nerve to put words in the mouths of future historians. for some reason, this kind of bloated pronouncement bothers me much more than people who just claim wrong things about the present.
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Surely historians’ interest will depend on the future course of the disease. Trumpism as a chronic infection that flares up now and then but proves manageable is a long way from 1/6 prefiguring an era of insurrection / existential instability.
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As others have pointed out too we can’t even take future interest for granted.
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paying attention only to symptoms in sick people creates sicker people for whom death comes as a surprise, was, I think, his point.
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