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The Federalist, with its secret funding, is a big advocate for sen Hawley. So no surprise that a Federalist writer attacks on his behalf. But Boot is certainly right. Hawley says that the purpose of civil government is not civil government or liberty or individual rights but ...
2/ rather to serve a Christ’s Kingdom. And if it doesn’t serve that end it has no legitimacy. Here’s Hawley ... 
3/ Ed Kilgore had a very good essay on this a month or so ago. I really recommend it to you. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
4/ Now whether you want to call this theocracy is at some level a semantic point. He doesn’t say he actually wants priests or pastors to run the government on the basis of the Bible. But he and his illiberal coterie are pretty clear on the basic point: government exists ...
5/ to advance a right wing interpretation of a Christian ideal society and to the extent it doesn’t it should be done away with. Again, The Federalist is an ideological boiler room or chop shop. We shouldn’t expect critical and good faith writing from it. But this charge is ...
6/ an accurate one. Hawley is an illiberal reactionary at war with the American ideal of civic government.
