Monthly Archives: May 2016

Andrew Sullivan: America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny – NYMag

…[T]hose Democrats who are gleefully predicting a Clinton landslide in November need to both check their complacency and understand that the Trump question really isn’t a cause for partisan Schadenfreude anymore. It’s much more dangerous than that. …[T]hose Republicans desperately

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Louis René Beres: America Becomes What Its Founders Feared – The National Interest

For Edmund Randolph, the evils from which the new country was suffering had originated in the “turbulence and follies of democracy.” Regularly, Elbridge Gerry spoke of democracy as “the worst of all political evils,” and Roger Sherman hoped that “the

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