In reaction to all the stuff that's happened over the last week I've seen some otherwise normal people say, well, they're just pushing their interpretation of 'unitary executive theory'. it's important for everyone involving themselves in this moment to know that that's not a real thing. now ...
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What Musk's doing isn't a return to the Gilded Age, but a return to pre-Enlightenment Absolutism
Not robber barons, but actual barons
We're fighting in different languages (and I'd argue losing because of it).
The conspiracy was vast, well funded, and captured more elites than it needed.
Handshakes and talk of the off-season I guess?
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
it’s anti-Madisonian anti-originalism
Those few dozen guys we call the Founders, in their 18th Century intellectual world, were smarter than we are. More precisely, they were wiser than we are.
I understand our world is different now: they had slavery and we do not, we have indoor plumbing and they did not, they couldn’t alter the planet’s climate & we have.
https://bsky.app/profile/openingmyheart.bsky.social/post/3lhmtxuv5n224
https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup
Separation of powers, man.
No principals or values other than naked partisanship.