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Jake Peterson's avatar

Another thought-provoking post, Bill. I shared it on social media, and here's a comment from a friend: It’s true that taking down statues mobilized white southerners for an election or two but now that they’re down the battle is won. They’re not going back up. I’d say in the long term most of the “backfires” were long term successes. The civil war was won, prohibition was repealed by a much more progressive administration and Biden is president now. It’s true progressivism usually creates a backfire but then there’s a much larger counter-backfire where the progressive agenda is really met

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Stelladona's avatar

James Madison was no angel either so he would know.

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