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Political scientist. Professor. Writer. Mitchell Scholar. Reproached by Mikhail Gorbachev. mastodon.online/@profmusgrave
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Guardian of the Strait of Forever

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By Paul Musgrave
| Systematic Hatreds
Donald Trump grew up and started his career in New York City construction and real estate, two industries that are, as we say, organized crime-adjacent. It’s no surprise, then, that he continually reapplies the lessons of small-time Queens grifters to geopolitics—most recently with his announcement that the United States, not the Iranians, will be levying a 20 percent tariff on goods passing through the Strait of Hormuz: This is, quite literally, a protection racket.
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Avoiding Phony Universals

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By Paul Musgrave
| Systematic Hatreds
A bit of a diversion, for me at least; we’ll get back to politics soon. We love to say our preferences are universal. OK, see what I did there? Logicians might say I committed a logical fallacy—a hasty generalization; advocates might point out that I offered no evidence at all; rhetoricians might more charitably describe what I’ve done as a handshake. I want to add at least a fourth: I spoke in the phony universal. The phony universal is ubiquitous on the Internet.
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Highway to the Coolest Zone

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By Paul Musgrave
| Systematic Hatreds
In Internet argot, “The Cool Zone” is a period that’s fun to read about and crap to live through. For many leftists, for instance, there’s the French Revolution—bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, pants-wetting was it in that afternoon to approach the guillotine. I’m not sure what the paradigmatic rightist Cool Zone would be (the Crusades?) but you can fill in the blanks.
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