John Adams Mashhour (quoting the political philosopher in the seventeenth century James Harrington) wrote that a republic was “the empire of laws, not men.” Donald TrumpIf he noticed this quote or thinking about it, it is believed that it is a load of religious liberal nonsense. One of America’s big problems, at the moment of the maximum existential and constitutional crisis, is that many of us believe, or suspect, that it is not completely wrong.
Trump’s true genius, if we can call it, lies in finding the weakness of his opponents – cracks, cracks and gaps through which it can be forced to hunger, hunger and huge but fragile, like a lot of orange orange. These weaknesses often involve principles, since Trump has nothing, so with his current opponent, the constitutional system of the United States of America, which was built on a complex set of interlocking principles that it supports only or in many cases, does not support Absolutely.
Many of us, perhaps most of us, realize that Trump has at least half a point than the fragile or legendary nature of the rule of law, even if we want it. This includes many people who did not vote for him and never did so, and they have no desire to follow him in the land of self -destruction brutally Maga imaginary.
In this world, Trump’s first law is that there is no law. It is fair to say that he noticed with sincerity that the doctrine or colon throughout his career as a shameful fraud in business, a sexual predator of many times in personal life, and a satisfactory manufacturer of sadistic lies in politics. He inhaled somewhere-certainly not from studying history-a very mysterious version of the philosophy that he imagined pushed Napoleon and HitlerPerhaps Alexander the Great and the Great. (Perhaps it is not very clear about the difference.) Why is it not called “great”? If the name of the Gulf of Mexico changes, it can also change it.
For a deeper layer of paradox, think about this Article 2017 From the right -wing Claremont review of books, a fixed defender of Trumpism, which also shows the Harington quotation above. The “Empire of Laws”, which Harrington (written in the fifties of the twentieth century) was imposed on Athens and ancient Rome, contradicting a more “modern” alternative, where “a man, or a few men, are subject to a city or a nation, and its rule According to his own or their own interest: which, because the laws in such cases may be said according to the interest of the man, or for some few families, they are The Empire of Men, not from the laws. This seems somewhat familiar, and I am surprised frankly, Claremont did not get out of his location.
For Trump, history is made by great men, of course. (Is strange value of value obtained from chance confrontations with the prose that belongs to the founder’s era?) The law is a suitable imagination, subject to their will and their whims, which were created to enslave less minds. This principle or mental state – “l’état, c’est moi”, translated into IDICRacy – may be the best way to understand how and why Trump jumps from an illusion to another, with no similar to continuity or ideological consistency, such as a small child other than Saeed Building volatile towers and watching them fall. He wants Panama channel. He wants to circulate Puerto Rico in favor of Greenland. He wants to develop a beach resort in Gaza. Want Volodymyr Zelenskyy And 37 million Ukrainian others to deliver their metal rights and then surrender, the period.
It is not true that Donald Trump does not believe in anything: he believes that there is no law and that his will can form reality. This has not been entered yet, to his consent or anyone else.
It is recognized by him, how exactly Trump means “making” history or making America, as you know, is still great again a little mysterious – if any consolation, he will be tired of it. Elon Musk SHKICK sooner or later. But it does not matter: We can flash during the next thirty years or so from Trump’s presidency for life and then fades on the top of Mount Rushmore. the end.
In a stunning departure from the usual practice, many major media comments on the renewed BROM Trump with Vladimir PutinHis clear attempt to settle the Ukrainian war without the participation of Ukraine was accurate and smart. I do not mean anger that Trump raised a “post -war” which has maintained 80 years of peace in Europe (more or less) and avoiding a third world war at the end of civilization. It was a little knee, and it includes more than a few details, given the clear decline of both NATO and the European Union over the past two decades or so.
What I mean is the common understanding that Trump and his most intelligent allies have identified on the decisive weaknesses in the current world order, and they reached the scene of the accident at the right moment to exploit them exactly. in The last exchange For the New York Times, Russian expatriate Mashha Jessen and Brett Stevens Palloweus noticed. At one point, Gesen summarizes it in this way:
Trump and a phones see a crisis in Europe that challenges the foundational values of the European Union – the two have not committed to contempt for the concepts of cooperation, openness, human rights and the legal mechanisms of the national. Europe’s collapse will be evidence of the concept of Trump.
Likewise, I am forced to admit that the column writer in foreign policy Thomas Friedman – who always tends to define as a mistake in everything literally, including rules of rules and whether Thursday follows Wednesday – Impressive In discussing the “real upward trend” of Trump last week, it is a preparation for “the game council” when it comes to stagnation and global problems from which it seems hopeless such as the Ukraine war or the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. But “what raises anxiety”, Friedman concludes, “is a mixture of being ready to ask really radical questions, and then, when it comes to answers, just buy everything Putin says.”
Remarkable Zaeem is not signed (Or an editorial) In The Economist, who is actually a member of the House of Representatives in Global Capital – may be the work of the editor in the leader of Zani Menton Bedz – things enough:
Every Trump’s action explains his belief that the authority is personally suitable for him, and confirms that he is determined to collect more. Ignoring the legislative body, it is ruled by a decree. He confirms that the president can block the money allocated by Congress. The utensils expected that the government branch would be the strongest, but this would reduce this. Because some executive orders of Mr. Trump 70 or so are, under it, unconstitutional, it seems to be looking for a The trial of force with the judiciary.
Pillar Michael Hirsch He dares to look after Trump’s presidency-of course, that it will be concluded at the time specified in 2029-for its potential and the next stage of the “US-led global regime relaxation”:
[Vice President JD Vance] He has the supporters of Maga has little love as Trump does for what they see as the very left Europe. The fact that Vans can Visit Dachau One day and It meets the next day With the far -right alternative to Germany for the Germany (which was criticized for his prayers with Public Nazism groups publicly-All this without betraying any feeling of historical paradox-indicates that the post-war consensus in the Atlantic may really end.
The great four facts behind Trump’s first law
What considers all this comment that prevails – one can cite many examples, is a discreet estimate, in varying degrees, from the first Trump Law: there is no law.
You can reject this law in principle, of course, or say that it is almost not true as Trump believes, or wants to be. Both are reasonable positions, but I face that there are four great facts for Trump’s era that made his first law approach very much. I do not intend this to ridicule or exaggerate. If America and the world do not recognize and face these facts, one of them will overcome them: the final collapse of liberal democracy.
- The American political system is crushed by a hopeless manner from it
Since at least the time of Bill Clinton and Niot Gingrich in the early 1990s, the two main political parties in America have been imprisoned in the dance of death, or circulation back and economic issues. You do not need to deal with drones here about how bad Democrats are, or the amount of what they have done and lost in the Standards Party, due legal procedures and the supposed good government. The important point is that many American voters were ready for someone, regardless of the declared party or ideology, who can cut the Jordian knot. Barack Obama was the first of these; We know how to turn it. This was the next destructive leader … I barely need to go forward. - The constitutional design of America is defective
It is bad enough to still a diverse, divided, geographical, geographical, 340 million people governed by a document written by a group of aristocratic farmers in the eighteenth century. What seemed to be an advantage of the American regime, compared to the unwritten constitution in the United Kingdom, for example, is now a tremendous responsibility. We have learned to dedicate the founders of their genius efforts to achieve a balance between the three branches of the government against each other, and they certainly saw the dangers of what we now call the “imperial presidency”, and they tried to protect from the possibility of potential people who act in bad faith. But the uncompromising expansion in the presidential power – beginning, frankly, with Andrew Jackson and Brahimi Lincoln, and was sent by Richard Nixon, George W. Bush and Obama – made “checks and balances” all meaningless. There is no “handrail” remaining against the president who is governed by an attack from the executive decrees and challenges the intention of the judicial branch, whose supposed power has now been unveiled as without teeth.
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- The “bases -based” international system is a cheek
Tom Friedman and other defenders of “Pax America”, with some justification, will argue that during the Cold War and the non -pole that followed. But this is the thing: most Americans had no idea that the blatant hypocrisy of our foreign policy was always clear to the rest About “human rights” is a shallow exercise. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and other Autocrats did not announce any values of such values, but when they noticed frankly that the matter was “based on the bases” announced by generations of American diplomats always assumed that the United States would write the rules to its own specifications-I mean, they had it a point. - Democracy faces an existential crisis of legitimacy, on a global scale
Do I really need to clarify this topic, which is very equipped? While I write this, voters in Germany exactly determine the extent of the authority near the Nazi Nazi alternative to the Germany Party, which will come, with the support of JD Vance, Elon Musk and other deep right protrusions. The right -wing Giorgia Melonian party is carrying power in Austria, which is at least money that Marine Le Pen will be the next president of France. There are actually the main democratic nations in Western style-including Britain, Canada and Japan and the aggrieved standing such as Brazil and India-where the political system did not explode somewhat after the war. Patrick Healy also notes in the conversation with Gessen and Stephens, mentioned above, when JD Vance delivered Munich’s speech that shocked European leaders, he was announcing a victory over “a group of weak, failed or corrupted economies” and “social status agents”, the United States, “continent One day a dominant is now a weak goal that Trump sees to take. “
Can all these things be addressed or corrected? It is difficult to say, but certainly not all once. For Americans, the country’s citizens who created or shipped all these problems, the responsibility begins at home.
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