Birch Smith
Philosophy PhD student and contributing editor at The UnPopulist. I work on the role of social and political epistemology in democratic political theory.
Read my public philosophy here: discoursemachine.beehiiv.com
- From me: normally, regular transfers of power create incentives to not abuse power or seize power you don't want the other party to wield next. But if you abuse power too much, or accumulate too much power, it creates a perverse incentive to go even further: you can no longer afford to hand it over.
