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Good on Squire Derb “Derb” Derbyshire. The man understands, if not All, then certainly Much.

His money quote here is “A person with a firm belief in human nature is always a conservative”

As the novelist Elizabeth Bowen observed, “Trying to change what you basically are like is like walking north on a deck of a south-bound ship.”

Or, (and more pertinently to us, in these parlous times of historical amnesia), as the historian and author Walter A. McDougall put it, “American history is a tale of human nature set free.”