Or rather, conservatives believe, deep down, that the *possibility* of electoral losses is legitimate, & the Left does not. It is not a coincidence that the original democratic transfer of power was away from a party of the Right (the Federalists). https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1289971635311669248 …
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The whole idea of a constitutional democratic republic is that sometimes you lose elections, & then you get to convince the voters to give you back the same powers they just gave to the other guy.
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The constitutional methodology of progressivism assumes that no electoral loss can legitimately transfer the same powers that a prior victory delivered; each win is supposed to be permanent "progress" reducing the number of questions left undecided to the voters.
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The most egregious example of refusing to accept a Republican president.https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1290078708464664577 …
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Are you actually going to defend the proposition that Southern Democrats circa 1860 were “the *left* side of the Assembly”? Because if not, then that example fatally undermines Adrian’s point—not the other way around.
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Southern Democrats were to the left in the sense that their concept of government was much larger and much more intrusive than the Lockean form of government favored by those traditionally on the right of the political spectrum. Southern Democrat’s were populists.
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About that: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-confederate-roots-of-the-administrative-state/ …
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