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AP's avatar

New Trump isn't hard to understand, he's just an economic Republican candidate. The middle class GOP people I know who didn't like him in 2016 like him now, because he's safe. They believe the economy will improve under him. Nobody thinks he's going to kick off a race war or expel the Jews, they just think it'll be easier to make rent under Trump than under Biden.

Everything else is just election cycle window dressing. It's the economy, stupid.

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AP's avatar

In contrast, nobody looks at Nikki Haley and thinks their paycheck is going up in 2025.

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Olaf Von Turpentine's avatar

The Texas happening is by far the most interesting of all. Will the feds just let it fade out of the news cycle? They don't have a winning move in any direction.

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the long warred's avatar

Annus Mirabalis !

Not only the Rule of Law but the fiction of the MIC is questioned!

Gods ! What is next?

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the long warred's avatar

“Not a nation of laws but of men.”

Rather like Santa Claus and the Stork brings Babies we are best rid of the Rule of Law illusions.

Hopefully people will recover from this terrible trauma.

The Rule of Law...about which, the Founders, all of the Founding documents especially the Federalist and anti Federalist papers would have found any notion that Rule was anything BUT the Rule of Men absurd or insane. The entire point of limited and divided powers and every debate about power since Plato takes as premise that it’s the Rule of Men.

The Rule of Law is not American, it’s Max Weber, it’s 20th century, it’s technocratic, it’s delusional.

Right up there with Men are capable of getting pregnant...

So yes Rule is always the rule of Men.

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