I think this is correct. Conservative ideas actually have a strong future in America. But if the GOP falls to the temptation to do election-theft or coups, they will give up that advantage.
Coup attempts, especially, will result in utter domination of U.S. institutions by liberals and leftists. The Right will be utterly discredited; institutions like the military will have no choice but to completely embrace the things the Right fears most.
In fact you can already see this happening, with the "woke" military ads and the attempts to root out white supremacists following the 1/6 coup attempt -- which the military knows was a coup attempt no matter how many times rightists screech that it wasn't.
Election theft might be more possible, since the Constitution might allow it, and the military and other institutions uphold and defend the Constitution. It could force Dems and the Left into a choice of "rebel or accept defeat"...
But if this gambit fails -- because everyone knows that election theft is election theft -- it will also discredit the Right, though to a lesser degree than coup attempts would.
My advice to the Right is to obey the rules of democracy, to focus on promulgating a popular backlash to liberal overreach, and to continue converting Hispanic voters.
But when has the Right ever listened to me or taken my advice?
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If only the Allies hadn't insisted on escalating after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, right? If only Neville Chamberlain hadn't been such a warmonger...
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You see, the Allies escalated at VERSAILLES, and Germany was just trying to restore balance...
2/Most interviews I do are back-and-forth, but this one was just me sending him a list of 10 questions, so I didn't respond in the interview itself! So here are some responses.
3/I think his libertarian perspective on the pandemic is more right than we'd care to admit (and similar to a point I made here: noahpinion.substack.com/p/climate-chan…).
But it does ignore the incredibly successful Operation Warp Speed, and the extremely fast vaccine rollout under Biden.
1. It would help Americans understand China better, and vice versa, thus promoting understanding between the two countries
2. It would teach Americans the difference between $20,000 per capita GDP and $60,000 per capita GDP
Also, it would inspire young Americans to think about growth, and about manufacturing.
The biggest downside would be the air pollution. But China has made substantial progress on cleaning it up, and will probably continue to make progress.
I've always felt that I owed a lot to the book Ender's Game. It was an incredibly uncomfortable read, but it taught me that being a smart kid didn't make me better than the people around me or give me license to screw other people over.
Interestingly it did not give me the idea of being a blogger, since I thought no one would listen to a real blogger 😂
When I was young I told people I didn't like Ender's Game. Then when I got older and realized the value of reading well-written things that made me uncomfortable, I realized I *did* like it.