Matt Glassman has diagrammed Michele Bachmann’s affiliations:
This is perfect. The only things I have to add:
—Glassman has done the same with Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, and Mitt Romney.
—In case you’ve forgotten who Zacchaeus was…
…via The Monkey Cage.
Update: A revised diagram has been posted to correct a misspelling (in the original).
Author: Andrew Sabl
Andrew Sabl, a political theorist, is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics and Hume’s Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England, both from Princeton University Press. His research interests include political ethics, liberal and democratic theory, toleration, the work of David Hume, and the realist school of contemporary political thought. He is currently finishing a book for Harvard University Press titled The Uses of Hypocrisy: An Essay on Toleration. He divides his time between Toronto and Brooklyn.
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I for one saw the name Samuel Adams and tried to think of other famous former tax collectors who were also brewer-patriots.
I knew that Thomas Paine was a tax collector, but was unaware that Sam Adams was as well.
Oh, yes. On the Firesign Theatre’s Everything You Know Is Wrong, you can hear Ben Franklin refer to him as “Fiery Sam, the tax collector”.
Are publicans a prototype Republican? I guess they must be, since Jesus was so broadminded as to be willing to consort with publicans and sinners.
Cervantes was a tax collector, for a short part of a life which inter alia included a stint as a slave in North Africa.
I wish Glassman had done with Ted Turner and called in Bachmann Turner Overlap