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Secessionists' Paradise: Can "Red States" secede?

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  It's the start of a new year, and I decided it was time to get back to the project that led to this blog. A major reason for this is that in the intervening time, there has been a major increase in talk about secession, particularly from the reactionary faction that lost the 2020 election. For the present post, I intend to look at a simple question: could the so-called "red" states form their own country? As a preliminary, I will make a few personal and quasi-legal disclaimers. First, my primary interest in secession is as a political theorist . In practice, I study historic and recent secessionist movements and the reasons or likelihood of their failure or success, which should obviously be a quite separate question from whether any given group is in the "right". Second, I am not greatly concerned with the military side of secession. For the most part, any "realistic" secessionist scenario would leave that unknown, usually because a good part of the...
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Introductory Post: Lying liar gets sued

  Recently, I have been thinking on and off about doing a bit more with “political” writing. In the process, I decided that the best way to do it was to start a new blog. In the meantime, I was doing my own research on a very interesting story. In the last few weeks, an individual named Eric Coomer filed a lawsuit against a number of parties alleging that he had been targeted for death threats based on an unsubstantiated accusation that he had been heard claiming that he made “sure” that Donald Trump lost the election, as well as certain social media posts critical of the president. What interested me most is that this story in turn was based solely on a statement by one person who claimed to have infiltrated an “antifa” conference call without recording the exchange, preserving a record of how he was invited to take part, or reporting the matter to anyone until after the election. Since the lawsuit itself is already on record, I will instead dive right in to the alleged phone ca...
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