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I Note you haven’t disputed Brinton’s theory, but instead substituted a different idea. If you want to criticize Brinton, by all means go for it. You’re not disputing anything here. The book’s available on Amazon. a.co/d/071OSxk4

Possibly. Neither engaged in any replacement planning, something they might well have done if there had been a finite end to a political career. We do know, however, the lack of replacement planning has presented us with fairly awful House and Senate leadership.

2) Thermidorian Reaction as a socio/political cry for an end to crisis resulting in an authoritarian regime (Napoleon, Cromwell, Lenin, & Mao), thereby substituting one deposed elitist regime for another. Brinton published in 1964. I continue to believe his analysis is relevant.

1) Crane Brinton in “Anatomy of Revolution” painstakingly analyzed the Russian, Chinese, French, & English revolutions and found several discrete stages common to all. He saw the inevitable purge as the consolidation, and what he called The

I wasn’t thinking of case law when I replied, but of intent, a feedback loop, & affected reaction. Architects have intent (design blueprint ), but also renovate, with a different intent, but confined always by foundation. I’m having fun with this in the best way.

It’s noise. If Dems appear to have a real chance, the political pressure on Schiller will force a change in position. This seems like posturing. If polling shows they can’t , every politician will say whatever they believe benefits them. No one whips a loss.

This is behavioral analysis in precisely the same way architecture affects, even directs, human behavior within its walls. it’s also complicated, and a perpetually changing dynamic. I found this a useful framing

Read some books And go work some campaigns. Your ignorance is on you, kid.

She didn’t say she agreed. She didn’t “validate.” She said some of their concerns were bi-partisan. You do remember lots of parents on the Left were upset by school closures, no? If you’re going to be triggered by the most anodyne of political responses, you’re a naive innocent here.

Good Lord, you do read and write English, no? Parse what she said and think on it. She didn’t say their views were valid. She said some of what they’re on about are bi partisan concerns. Pro tip: lot of parents on the Left were upset about school closures.

Watch what she does, not what she releases for PR consumption. She’s one of the best retail politicians we’ve got. What you’re on about has about as much worth as condemning someone because they say something on the order of “many people like Chick-Fil-A”

C’mon, folks! Does anyone believe for a second AOC is anti-public health, that she’s a vaccine denier? Does anyone believe she’s suddenly going to change her public stances on these matters? This is standard, anodyne political practice. Everyone should move on.

Poll is meaningless because by design it doesn’t measure response when there’s only one candidate running against Rogers. Also, polls are snapshots confined by time. What’s true now may not be true tomorrow. Trump won in 2016. Mamdani won in NYC.

2) In what world do people believe a Jew might face less electoral antagonism than a woman, not to mention a DSA Jewish guy?

1) The recurring fable Bernie Sanders might have been a stronger candidate than HRC is astonishing considering Sanders hasn’t ever been subjected to the rigors of a national campaign. A better guess might suggest he would have been torn to shreds.

Your daughter seems wonderfully, properly, human. The correct answer requires foundational understanding, so not easy to explain. Loved this thread. My daughter’s now almost 48, and I still remember some of those sorts of conversations.

So glad to see this. The laws and intent behind them immediately after the Civil War set the stage for what happened, and then the corrupt compromise of 1877 sets the stage for what happened subsequently, even unto our own period. Well done, Professor!

2) face the contemptuous stares of previously cowed schoolmates delighting in their shared schadenfreude.

2) Worst of all, this administration doesn’t care who pays the price.

2) The Genie’s out of the bottle. No one knows how to put the rat bastid back in, and that and so much more must have been known by the folks who put this all together for the sake of unimaginable wealth and power.