One thing I changed my mind over the past few years in the US...

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One thing I changed my mind over the past few years in the US constitution and the Federalist Papers. I used to think they were brilliant works of statecraft. In reality they were useless in preserving a democratic and liberal polity. What did it over 200 years was the legacy …

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… of European liberalism and European Enlightenment thought and culture. When that legacy disappeared, the Constitution and the political system quickly turned out to be toothless

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Jefferson and Hamilton and Madison: how embarrassing, gentlemen, that I once thought you knew what you were doing. As for you master thinkers of the European Enlightenment: not bad, not bad at all

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