Found this very interesting post on MPC, wanted to share here. Lots to consider. I see IE someday occupying the space described.
*Francis' most memorable idea was probably that of the Middle American Radical, the disenfranchised heart of the American heartland that would eventually rise up and challenge the cosmopolitan status quo. When I think of this figure, I like to picture him as the hero in one of Norman Rockwell's paintings, Freedom of Speech.
This here is the Middle American Radical. There's nothing fancy about him and he may never have seen the inside of a college, but he's a central part of his community and he has the right, and indeed the duty, to steer it in the right direction, which is why he exercises his freedom of speech.
Through that act alone, he is a radical by any historical measure. For most of history, a man of his social station would not have been asked to share his thoughts, and if he had insisted on doing so, would likely have been flogged or executed. The American radical prides himself on not being ruled by petty tyrants, on having a say in the affairs of softer men even as a ragged, calloused laborer. That this type of radical egalitarianism has existed, and continues to exist, is a constant source of distress for the revolutionary left, which has never managed to implement its conception of equality without gulags and police states.
Needless to say, this type of populist radicalism squarely stands in the way of grand ideological experiments. Look at Rockwell's hero; do you believe for a second that this man is arguing in favor of open borders, communism or Adolf Skywalker? If anything, he's blasting the unseen speaker in front of the room for entertaining such notions.*
