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Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War version. “It will be a society of the dominators and the dominated. But it will not be a democracy worthy of the name.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/antebellum-constitution/685354/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ4h4pY0mS3PXFQbLYqMjDhI
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

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Show threadKevin RussellDec 29

@kottke

Its a home invasion smash and grab. It has -- NOTHING to do with political philosophy or federal structure theory, --> it is men shouting "GET ON THE FLOOR!" in a bank heist, --- not new "horizontalism" --> it is racist round ups, not paperwork rewrites.

Every gang of the "Sack Rome" 2025 project has excuses, parsing them is mere distraction.

#uspoli

Show threadMidgePhotoDec 30

@kottke Rather radical, your "conservatives", and inclined to discard rather than conserve the solutions found to problems in the past.

Best call them the revolutionaries, the confederate revanchists, or something more apt.

I hope you get your #SecondRepublic a bit more correct.