Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Of course we shouldn’t trust the people. That’s one of the basic American ideas. As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government — monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy — each with its own particular deficiencies. … Adams, like many of the other founders, was a student of the classics (imagine a contemporary American politician beginning a disquisition with ‘Let me proceed then to make a few observations upon the Discourses of Plato and Polybius’), and what he learned from his studies of the wise men and the great civilizations of the past was that the project of organizing life was a story of — at best — temporary success followed by inevitable failure.” (11/11/24)
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