1) A quick intrusion into the fascinating ongoing debate between @DouthatNYT and @AdamSerwer, if I may.
Douthat seems to want to dethrone, or at least downgrade, the role of liberal constitutionalism and liberal democracy as a historical force for progress.
I'm not sure how it is a contradiction to say that Lincoln & most of the more hard-line abolitionists were classical liberals, but also say that in practice, abolition was the result of war. Seems like an argument without a point to it.
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I don't think it's necessarily a contradiction; I think it's an oversimplification of the *whole* story. See coming tweets.
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I mean, I'm following, & after all I'm both a big Lincoln partisan & on the Frenchist side of the Right. I just think the back & forth over Ross' framing is much ado about very little. And I don't see how it helps the progressive case against classical liberalism.
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