Ideas don't die and often play out differently than their original authors intended. As @andycraig.bsky.social writes, this is the key insight of historian Gordon Wood, who was hit by a car in a parking lot this past Sunday and died at the age of 92.
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Andy Craig at the Unpopulist @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net on the great Gordon Wood.
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Gordon Wood understood the genius of our founding better than the Founders themselves. Rest in Peace, sir.
