I’m interested in American institutions, economic strength, military power, and history.
The U.S. has usually done best building institutions and alliances, and worst trying to remake other countries.
History is usually a better teacher than ideology.
@dbongino If your definition of winning is:
End up where you started
Spend tens to hundreds of billions
Lose American lives
And still be stuck in the conflict
Then yes, we are absolutely winning
@ggreenwald@LPMisesCaucus DONT MISS IT:
Watch the timing, not the headlines
US political rhetoric is ramping up to leaving NATO. At the same time, pressure is building against a NATO member.
The words the leaders use are far less important than the timing and global context of their actions.
MUST READ: When Barnburners said burn it down in the 1840s it wasn’t theatrics it was a reaction to real corruption entrenched power and a system openly bending itself to protect and expand slavery, they walked away from their own party helped ignite the Free Soil Party, the Whig Party collapsed under the pressure, and out of that chaos came the Republican Party which reorganized the entire country around a defining issue and ultimately put Abraham Lincoln in the White House, what you’re seeing now feels eerily familiar, rising anger at corruption, distrust of entrenched elites, and a growing belief across the spectrum that both parties are aligned on pro war empire driven policies the public never really voted for, history says the outrage alone isn’t the story, the fracture is just the beginning, the real question is whether this moment hardens into something disciplined and unifying or whether it gets absorbed and fades, because every once in a while the system doesn’t just bend it breaks and reforms around a new center, maybe this is one of those moments, maybe it isn’t, but it’s closer than some may think
MUST READ: When Barnburners said burn it down in the 1840s it wasn’t theatrics it was a reaction to real corruption entrenched power and a system openly bending itself to protect and expand slavery, they walked away from their own party helped ignite the Free Soil Party, the Whig Party collapsed under the pressure, and out of that chaos came the Republican Party which reorganized the entire country around a defining issue and ultimately put Abraham Lincoln in the White House, what you’re seeing now feels eerily familiar, rising anger at corruption, distrust of entrenched elites, and a growing belief across the spectrum that both parties are aligned on pro war empire driven policies the public never really voted for, history says the outrage alone isn’t the story, the fracture is just the beginning, the real question is whether this moment hardens into something disciplined and unifying or whether it gets absorbed and fades, because every once in a while the system doesn’t just bend it breaks and reforms around a new center, maybe this is one of those moments, maybe it isn’t, but it’s closer than some may think
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When Barnburners said burn it down in the 1840s it wasn’t theatrics it was a reaction to real corruption entrenched power and a system openly bending itself to protect and expand slavery, they walked away from their own party helped ignite the Free Soil Party, the Whig Party collapsed under the pressure, and out of that chaos came the Republican Party which reorganized the entire country around a defining issue and ultimately put Abraham Lincoln in the White House, what you’re seeing now feels eerily familiar, rising anger at corruption, distrust of entrenched elites, and a growing belief across the spectrum that both parties are aligned on pro war empire driven policies the public never really voted for, history says the outrage alone isn’t the story, the fracture is just the beginning, the real question is whether this moment hardens into something disciplined and unifying or whether it gets absorbed and fades, because every once in a while the system doesn’t just bend it breaks and reforms around a new center, maybe this is one of those moments, maybe it isn’t, but it’s closer than some may think
@LindseyGrahamSC Hey @grok Help me out I'm trying to remember what the word is for that thing when a person who's representative for a country works with a different country to subvert their own democracy and manipulate the elected leaders of their own country what's that word again