Mark Schmeller

Associate Prof. of U.S. History. Early national politics & culture. Current research: anti-masonry, kidnapping, conspiracy theories. Soup enthusiast.

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Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction https://t.co/cMKGPGtM9U

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For Labor Day, I have a column in The Hill on presidents with soft little fingers. https://t.co/Z1OUvhPYeZ

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@TVietor08 LOL

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@bencarp Similar experience when I taught at Northeastern Illinois University. My office was in Lech Walesa Hall.

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Reminded that one of the best American documentary films ever made was about desperate men selling overpriced Bibles to poor and elderly people. https://t.co/gLStuLrOJy

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@prchovanec Yikes. We've been thinking of Tokyo in late June / early July. Guess we should get on that pronto.

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@bencarp LOL I thought of that scene when I noticed that you still had the mic on after your (great) talk.

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@KevinMKruse

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Thanks, but I prefer my King Charles.

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BA in history, Yale University

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Daily Wire host: "We view divine right monarchs as being absolute tyrants, wielding -- that isn't true. The idea of divine right monarchy is, actually, that there is a limit on the power of the monarch"

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@Alan_Allport

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@jordanbpeterson Up yours, woke chandlers.

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@RonFilipkowski Not sure if they mean their own deaths.

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SBC is 6'3". Santos appears to be around the same height.

Also: I am not insane.

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Can't shake the suspicion that "George Santos" is a Sacha Baron Cohen bit.

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@Alan_Allport "Republicans shat the bed, but Democrats are equally at fault for refusing to sleep in it."

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@Alan_Allport First follower. What's the door prize?

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Most are about the #GeorgiaRunoff

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@prchovanec His more recent Sasquatch novel is also a good read: https://t.co/y96bmaB74L

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@Alan_Allport Here at Comintern, my comrades call him a "useful idiot."