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Seth Cotlar

“‘The public…will not decide wrong, unless it decides too hastily’: Revisiting Thomas Paine’s…

[Note: This is the largely unrevised text of a talk I gave at this conference at Iona College in October 2018. The “PP” marks in the text…

26 min readApr 3, 2021

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“‘The public…will not decide wrong, unless it decides too hastily’: Revisiting Thomas Paine’s…

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Seth Cotlar

“In your guts, you know he’s nuts:” Right wing Extremism in the GOP, 1964 and today

As the 1964 Republican convention approached, many political observers warned that right-wing extremists were about to take over the Grand…

9 min readFeb 4, 2021

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Seth Cotlar

Hamberder lovers vs. “burg-tards:” An analogy for life in Donald Trump’s America

I’ve been trying to come up with an analogy that captures my experience of living through the Age of Trump, and I think I found a so-so…

3 min readDec 14, 2020

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Transcript of President Trump’s Good Friday Corona-Rally. April 10, 2020.

Jesus was a man who was treated very unfairly, very roughly, by pilots, by seizures, by everybody really. There was even an advisor named…

3 min readApr 10, 2020

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Transcript of President Trump’s Good Friday Corona-Rally. April 10, 2020.

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Seth Cotlar

Can Eric Trump Even Hear Himself Speak?

There’s a good chance that in 13 months, Eric will be the son of a former President who traded on his father’s name and position to make…

3 min readOct 11, 2019

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Can Eric Trump Even Hear Himself Speak?

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That time I tried to engage with someone from The Federalist as if they gave a shit about anything…

Ok, this is going to be embarrassing for me, but here it goes anyway. Back in June of 2017 I, a stupid person, thought that, based on…

6 min readApr 27, 2019

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That time I tried to engage with someone from The Federalist as if they gave a shit about anything…

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Seth Cotlar

What I learned from my Twitter jail sentence

I spent the day today in Twitter jail. Punishments are supposed to teach people lessons, so here’s my effort to extract a lesson from the…

4 min readMar 28, 2019

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What I learned from my Twitter jail sentence

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Seth Cotlar

Yes, Americans did refer to the nation as a “democracy” and not just a republic in the founding…

Neither the word “democracy” nor any of its cognates appeared in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776), one of the most radically populist…

25 min readOct 6, 2018

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Seth Cotlar

Dateline: September 6, 2068. The Original Text of the Historic, Billings Address

The Perpetually Failing New York Times has acquired the original, handwritten notes for what has come to be known as President Trump’s…

4 min readSep 7, 2018

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Seth Cotlar

What happens when that joker from Palookaville becomes President?

Anyone raised in a small town like I was probably recognizes who Trump is. He’s the ballsy guy who recognized in 2nd grade that the rules…

4 min readAug 25, 2018

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What happens when that joker from Palookaville becomes President?

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Seth Cotlar

Seth Cotlar

Professor of History at Willamette University. Author of Tom Paine's America. Working on a book about the long history of illiberal conservatism in the US.

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