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Ben Gruder's avatar

It's a Steve Bannon thing. Tear it all down and assume something better will rise in its place.

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Cheerio's avatar

That pretty much never happens in almost every case. The United States is an anomaly and it pretty much crashed less than 100 years into the experiment.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

It may have crashed but it didn't get demolished and there wasn't a revolution. Same system with modifications. And a whole host of growing pains. But the founders were really unusual: Their goal was not to punish 'enemies' and upend the entire political/intellectual environment. It was to institute a system that was not authoritarian. Beside, the Revolutionary war was not really a revolution so much as a separation. Bannon, you can be sure , just wants random 'let the chips fall where they may' chaos. And he's an authoritarian to boot.

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