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Bacon Gruyère Egg Bites

A Recipe for Those Hung(a)ry to Take Their Country Back

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Slade Wentworth
Apr 15, 2026
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Sometimes you make a recipe that’s meant to be a copy of something else. Just like forms of government.

Democracies, at their best, borrow ideas that expand who gets a seat at the table. Authoritarians borrow ideas that shrink the guest list while convincing the people left out that they weren’t invited for their own good.

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