Conflict is natural when one political order is slowly giving way to another. stoehr.substack.com/p/conflict-now…
During each period, the parties formed an unspoken consensus. Democracy could expand, quickly then slowly, as long as the blessings of liberty were primarily for white people. stoehr.substack.com/p/conflict-now…
I don’t know what the new political order will be, but the old one has all the markers of prior regimes: the dominant party has run out of ideas; it no longer has majority appeal; and its dominance has led to wholesale corruption and cultural decay. stoehr.substack.com/p/conflict-now…
So what if the Democrats act badly? This is after all a time for conflict, a time in which equally opposing forces are ready to clash. One party has long been fighting an existential war. The other now understands politics is about defeating the enemy. stoehr.substack.com/p/conflict-now…
