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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Josh Marshall

      While the book covers an interesting topic - I've as yet only skimmed the introduction - this essay is really too bland & vague to be worth engaging.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1198997473265631234 …

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      Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
      Why Changing The Way We See The Civil War Will Help Us Preserve Our Country https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/civil-war-revolution-constitution … via @TPM
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

      The contemporary international context of the American Civil War is, as readers may have noticed, a major part of my research these days.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

      It's easy to lose sight of how much of a liberal, democratic, republican (in the small-l/d/r sense) outlier the USA still was in 1861. Even the British, with a 2-party parliamentary system that was rapidly consuming the last remains of monarchical power, saw us that way.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

      Americans did not invent democracy or republican self-government. But both the Founding generation & Lincoln's generation were painfully aware that previous efforts had always come to grief. Really only after the Civil War did the world accept that the American experiment worked.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

      Of course, no sooner did critics of American democracy move on from "democracy is too revolutionary, doesn't work, people need a king," they started in on "democracy's day is over, modern people need 'Economic Democracy' (Communism), government by Experts, or Fascism."

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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019

          Even the Founding Fathers were skeptical that people could govern themselves, but instead of giving up, they set to work carefully designing a system to require popular self-government to be deliberative, protect the rights of the minority, & privilege fundamental rights.

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        2. politwits‏ @politwits1 25 Nov 2019
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          GKC thought rule by despotic experts far worse than rule by a despotic monarch. In the monarch people are ruled by a random man but accident of birth. While rule by “elites” people are rules by people who are thought to actually know better than them.

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        3. politwits‏ @politwits1 25 Nov 2019
          Replying to @politwits1 @baseballcrank

          A king was ironically an every-man while an expert thinks they know better than everyone else

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Nov 2019
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          Well, the 1850s monarchists and the 1910s progressives were mostly different people.

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        1. Daniel T‏ @DanielTobias_ 25 Nov 2019
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          "economic democracy" means demand-side capitalism, where consumers hold power over producers. Communism is supply-side economics, where a handful of billionaires centrally plan the allocation of resources. Adam Smith:pic.twitter.com/cLDSiL0dA5

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