Mike Harper ⛩️

Attorney; Part-Time Political Philosopher; Part-Time Sports Philosopher; Full-time Beer Connoisseur; Lover of Pork, Pork Products, and Pork Accessories.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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There are two kinds of people in this world....

Old joke. Self-refuting the second you laugh at it.

It's also basically the operating system of American politics right now. 🧵

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

We just need immigrants who want to turn our Americanness up to 11. Right now both of these parties got it at like a 5 or 6.

The ideals in the Declaration? The best.
A Constitution meant to secure the blessings of liberty? Awesome.

We need citizens to live up to them, so our politicians are forced to.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@jbhenneman Ugh. More crackpot than edgy. Appreciate the effort from him though.

I'm more put out by the lack of widespread celebration of George Westinghouse.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@PhilWMagness @ConceptualJames If only the Greeks had left us myths or plays warning about the wisdom of exposing inconvenient infants...<stares in Oedipus>.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@PhilWMagness Maybe they should have just watched YouTube videos of Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, and Friedrich Hayek as well as read Wealth of Nations and A Theory of Moral Sentiment like any sane person obtains their economic knowledge.

Right? Right?!?!?

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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The enemy doesn't defeat you only by conquering you.

Sometimes he defeats you by teaching you what victory requires.

What the Enemy Made Us is live now: https://t.co/inZgsupdDa

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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Saruman never decided Sauron was right. He decided Sauron understood power.

That's how the enemy makes you. Not by persuading you to adopt his ends, but by persuading you that only his means are adequate to the age.
New essay 🧵

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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Madison supplies the structure: ambition must counteract ambition.

Tocqueville supplies the habits: citizens who still judge for themselves.

Enemies are real.
Coalitions are provisional.
Principles are not coalitions.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@JonahDispatch I never voted for Trump, but Gorsuch....

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@PhilWMagness Phil, I already think we need to overturn Slaughter-House. You don't need to sell me on it

Side note: I have yet to hear a convincing argument that the Constitution grants an enumerated power over immigration.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

So as someone who wanted to keep working and home life separate, it was difficult. I missed the detox driving in to and out from the office.

But you have to take mental breaks more st home. It cuts down on the stress associated with being in the place you workm At least, I needed that.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@PhilWMagness Collectivists gonna collectivate.

[Cameron Magruder @ScooterMagruder]

Me liking every Gators tweet the next 72 hours

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

@PhilWMagness @megbasham My biggest issues with post-liberals ans Nat Cons is the constant drifting, their ignorance of personal agency, the binary thinking, and the unwillingness to believe that people deserve the right to make moral decisions without a gun to their head.

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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Full piece: https://t.co/AxzwvzXZ4P

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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There are two kinds of people in this world....

Old joke. Self-refuting the second you laugh at it.

It's also basically the operating system of American politics right now. 🧵

[Mike Harper ⛩️ @reprahekim]

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New essay runs it through Schmitt, Marcuse, Adam Smith's moral philosophy, and — I will not apologize for this — Bill & Ted.

"Be excellent to each other" holds up better than two centuries of political theory.