Robert Pape
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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It's seeping into large parts of society.
Now, maybe it's not seeping into 100%.
Again, you can also look at it as the fight or flight, but you are moving from that 1% of extremists, and you're deepening that pretty far down.
How far down, it's a little hard to say, but it's probably closer to 10%, 15%.
And they have the guns.
This is where you're not getting... If Iran was going to be knocked off relatively quickly...
here.
Actually, the time that it would have been most likely would have been when Saddam Hussein attacked right about a year after the revolution, because the revolution wasn't really fully consolidated yet.
As you know, there was a liberal part of the revolution that happened before the religious part of the revolution.
So there's all kinds of factions going on in the country at the time.
Foucault, I don't know if you know that name, he's a famous philosopher, liberal,
He wrote articles for newspapers.
He was at Berkeley, and he was a big believer in getting rid of American imperialism.
So he actually went to Tehran in the early part of the revolution, and he wrote articles for newspapers.
This was before we had substacks.
And he was a big believer, and then he literally watched as the revolution he thought was so good, so well-intended, transformed into the worst, awful revolution
religious uh dictatorship essentially that he could possibly imagine and he wrote continued to write those articles until it got too dangerous and then he published it as a book so you if anybody wants to relive that period from a liberal's perspective you can read foucault's uh book on this it's the famous foucault who wrote discipline and punish that many folks will have read
And you can really get a different window into this.
From somebody who starts out all good intentions, everything looks optimistic, this thing goes completely belly up.
And I think what you're seeing here, Patrick, is the conservative flip side of that right now.
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