Your analysis of hedge drift as a motte-and-bailey sounds plausible to me, but if true I think your recommendation that people should make the hedges stick better is incorrect. If the claim people really want to make is the hedgeless bailey claim, then they ought to make that to begin with, and if anything explain why the hedges aren’t needed.
Your analysis of hedge drift as a motte-and-bailey sounds plausible to me, but if true I think your recommendation that people should make the hedges stick better is incorrect. If the claim people really want to make is the hedgeless bailey claim, then they ought to make that to begin with, and if anything explain why the hedges aren’t needed.