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Brian,

I'll assume you mistakenly omitted Wilson's paragraph immediately above the one you quoted. Here it is:

"The Canadian truckers, and the successive waves of uncooperative normals coming up behind them (please see here and here), are willing to disobey traffic laws in defense of the genuine ancient verities that are being challenged by their government—their basic rights, in other words. But they are nevertheless not willing to loot stores, or burn down buildings, or shoot cops. This is why the protesters in Ottawa are doing things like cleaning the bathrooms of businesses that have stayed open. They are parking their trucks where Trudeau doesn’t want them to, but they are still respecting the Ten Commandments."

If you read the two paragraphs above that, you'll see even more starkly exactly the Calvinball which Wilson describes the truckers as playing:

Simple civil disobedience. Straight outta the pages of classical liberalism.

According to you, however, Wilson is advocating for the same "Calvinball' as the progressives.

Man, you really should read your opponents more carefully. It's a blight on your otherwise nice work.

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