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I’ve seen a number of people now coming at the current situation with this framework and it makes a lot of sense. You’ve got some really good bits in here that make it refreshing. Such a great topic to explore. For anybody reading this who likes this line of thinking, I suggest Joshua Mitchell’s American Awakening that he put out in 2020.

He frames the situation we all see up in a similar way, and expands on the idea of the Scapegoat. He’s a big Tocqueville guy at Georgetown and I have to say reading that book felt like somebody ran a grounding wire through me. Made loads of sense more than just about anything else I had read, at a root level. Like, really exciting shit (If you’re into that. If not, hey whatever).

I think you should continue to pull on these threads here as well, as your writing engages and entertains and you can expand on this dissertation in a way that will reach people in a cosmopolitan way (and therefore go further).

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