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1. Inactive
   Boethius1261972

   @Boethius1261972

   5:41 AM EST ⋅ Dec 7, 2022

   Didn’t he start the podcast saying how Madison spent a great deal of his energy “destroying” Patrick Henry?  Not very politic…Too bad Ducey didn’t get any election reforms done.  Weird.  Midwesterners aren’t nice, they just pretend to be.

2. Coolidge
   Postmodern Hoplite

   @PostmodernHoplite

   6:29 AM EST ⋅ Dec 7, 2022

   To be fair, I “liked” this post not because I particularly enjoyed listening to the podcast. Rather, I threw it a “like” recognizing that even though I didn’t enjoy it, it made me consider Madison and the War of 1812 from perspectives different from my own.

   That being said, here are my “hot takes”:

   1. Cost’s discussion of the War of 1812 is conventionally pedantic and superficial. This is not surprising, as it mirrors contemporary shallow understanding of both the causes of the war, and its strategic significance.
   2. Cost’s apparent understanding of the 1832 Nullification Crisis reflects little real insight into the root causes of the crisis, nor the consequences of its resolution in favor of expanded Federal authority over the sovereignty of the several states.
   3. Asked to speculate about what James Madison would think of today’s political environment, he fails to address that Madison would likely reject the bloated, bureaucratic monster that is the  Administrative State. The original Constitution has been so distorted and mutilated as to largely unrecognizable by its principal author.

   I won’t be buying Cost’s book.