One fascinating thing about this as a libertarian is the wild disconnect between the values Williams is avowedly concerned about and the things he views as core threats to them. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
You’re concerned we’re drifting away from a shared commitment to limited government, federalism, checks & balances? Me too! And the most pressing threat to those values is… woke anti-racism? Really?
I mean, yes, if all the most extreme things Ibram Kendi has ever proposed became federal law, I too would disapprove of that… but on the real world list of things I’m worried about, that’s hovering somewhere around “Borg invasion.”
Other threats: “the rise of big tech” and “the notion that borders are anachronistic, even racist.” Buddy, that Founding Era you venerate HAD OPEN BORDERS! And when that policy finally changed a century later, it was for *openly racist reasons*. newrepublic.com/article/154717…
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