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32. There are two Wilhoits, one a poli-sci prof & one a music composer. It was the composer who said

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #30)

Fri Jul 15, 2022, 04:42 PM

Jul 2022

this originally, and the poli-sci guy who gets mis-credited with it.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

I just posted the Crooked Timber discussion where he originally said it.

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Sorry, Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2022 #30

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