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LearnedHand

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14. I've been reading Armitage's soft secession theories for a while

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 02:20 AM

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They seem to make a lot of sense, but the execution could be very fragile, I think. If you think about the state governments, made up oftentimes of folks who have other full-time jobs, it wouldn’t take a lot of federal or corporate blowback to make them cave. I get where he’s going though. The state governments are all we have left when every other federal institution has fallen.

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