Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is this September 19th, 2025, Facebook post by Jason Brennan:

One of the most basic practical insights of liberalism is that any power you give government with the goal of empowering your side will–usually within 8 years!–be captured and used by the other side against you. So you shouldn’t create any source of power you wouldn’t want your ideological enemies to possess.

One of the most basic moves of American politics is to ignore this insight, even though it has so far never been wrong.