Popular democracy is, as I have argued, an essential part of the theory of modern conservatism. I just recognize that it is of less value as an end in itself than, say, individual liberty or fundamental human rights. Do you? https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/not-everyone-should-be-made-to-vote/ … https://thefederalist.com/2015/11/16/conservatisms-essential-element-is-experience/ …https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1381684699681206275 …
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Anyway, in the American system, the majority always wins in the long run, if it is sufficiently united & determined. Which is as it should be. And the people yelling at me today will be back tomorrow defending undemocratic rule by activist judges & unelected bureaucrats.
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The great thing about being a conservative is not having to adopt a bunch of inconsistent, situational stances about our system based on who's in office or what we're trying to sell to whom on a given day.
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Ever heard of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898? It's like you actively try to ignore all evidence to the contrary. But keep on backing straw man arguments in favor of Jim Crow!
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In other words it was based on disenfranchisement. And that is what this is. But you gotta put on your team jersey. They lost fair and want to change the rules. Americans don't like it one bit.
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It takes a lot of balls to make this type of argument in a magazine that supported Jim Crow at the time
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The Wilmington insurrection was not a majoritarian intervention, so not sure what your point about North Carolina is supposed to be. It's almost as if you're presuming the very sort of a priori racial distribution conservatives fight like hell to keep from being actual policy
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We're almost 15 years out from Obama's emergence as a national force and it *still* blows the minds of conservative whites that liberal whites have in fact resumed voting for brown people
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Jim Crow existed in Maryland, which is not on your list...
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