The Hypocrisy of Trump and MAGA - The Berkshire Edge

The hypocrisy of Trump and MAGA - The Berkshire Edge

To the editor: The hypocrisy and dishonesty of Trump and his Congress are now so great that it seems like every day is Opposite Day. Whatever they say, believe the opposite. This is the loudly anti-crime party that just voted to remove the tax on gun silencers. The “Make America Healthy Again” crowd that drastically cut medical research grants. The people who spread bizarre misinformation about FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene under Biden but…

Is Trump "the Sovereign"? Does MAGA Speak For "the People"?

Several people have argued that — consciously or not — Trump and Vance are following the thought of Carl Schmitt, a Nazi jurist and legal philosopher who developed influential ideas about executive power, popular sovereignty, the reduction of politics to the conflict between friends and enemies, and the so-called “state of exception.” In the last decades, legal theorists like Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule have applied Schmitt’s ideas to the Am…