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Subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts. regime change has a great and glorious history.

It's a history of repressive, dangerous, and destructive regimes being replaced by better ones. The story is not an

unchecked one. Sometimes regime change turns out for the worse. But the United States has

generally intervened over the past two and a half centuries to produce positive regime change.

And Iran, as I will argue, could well be our finest hour.

regime change has gotten such a bad name in recent years, even on the right, and perhaps

especially on the right, that it's helpful to remind ourselves of the times and places where

regime change has worked wonderfully. I'll start with the American Revolution.

regime change. The British are

forcibly ejected and America seizes control of its own destiny. Hey, that worked out pretty

well, didn't it? Writing as a champion of the American Revolution, the English essayist Tom

Payne wrote, we have it in our power to make the world all over again.

That is the hopeful, resonant slogan of regime change.

Good can prevail over evil.

Things can get better if we act to make it happen.

Incidentally, the French intervened to help us get there,

that's probably the last time the French did something useful

in the world. Fast forward to the middle of the 19th century, Texas used to be a part of Mexico,

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