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Read this. @urbanachiever argues that Trump's emergency's is just the tip of MAGA's growing taste for authoritarianism... thebulwark.com/make-authorita… via @BulwarkOnline
"But the MAGA right’s disillusionment may be more ominous than it appears. While Trump may have stumbled upon his declaration as last resort, for his supporters, the “state of emergency” is an organizing principle. "
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"And if his presidency ends in failure and disgrace, his former supporters will likely blame him for lacking the fortitude to extend the logic of emergency to its authoritarian conclusion.
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The necessary precondition for the modern tyrant is a state of emergency, or to put it in Hobbesian terms, a state of nature. What is an emergency, if not the immediate threat of nasty, brutish violence? "
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The authoritarian regime is governance at its most feudal and Leviathan: a lord and his serfs, with a “big, beautiful wall” to keep out the barbarian hordes."
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