Prof. Lindsey (Lindsay) Cormack
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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But we do want to have these sorts of polls, which is like that dance to the tune turnover every other year.
You're a public servant through and through.
Right.
that the founders take and say, we're gonna like change this.
We're gonna make it a little bit better and suit our needs.
And I think that's sort of like the work of self-governance is figuring out what you can learn from the past and say like, how can I change this and make it suit my needs a little bit better?
Yeah, maybe, maybe, which is interesting given the like lowborn status of his own background.
But the idea that he'd be an imperialist or a monarchist or a, yeah.
Which sounds a lot like how people talk about this today.
where every election is the only one that matters and the other side is going to like ruin the country or drive us into death or take what we want and throw it all away.
So I don't know if everyone knows this, but you do have a new book where you kind of go through a lot of times in which partisanship got to much worse places than we are today.
Do you feel okay talking about any of those parts and examples?
I do think there's something about... One of the reasons that it feels hard or uncomfortable to talk about politics is because of partisanship.
And the way that I sort of like to think about things is think like a patriot, not like a partisan.
Being a citizen is different than being a partisan.
But...
partisanship is a feature.
It is a reality.
It is not a mere bug.
It is what's going to happen when you have any sort of government that's competing for control.
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