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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks, Mark! Really appreciate the love!

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 15h

"If administrative law’s core mission is to curb unbridled political will, Trump has imperiled the field’s very existence. His vision would kill administrative law and replace it with administrative domination managed by a personalistic presidency."

excellent from @beaubaumann.bsky.social

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 17h

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe the bridge here is that the effectiveness has to be tied to a legit relationship with different communities. I guess I don’t think it matters how good the EPA is if it isn’t seen as vindicating, eg, Black Americans in an intergenerational struggle against the effect of environmental racism.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! You’re too kind!

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Timi @timi-iwayemi.bsky.social · 19h

Brilliant!

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

even if the project hurts effectiveness. We need a stable admin state with rules and stability before we can worry about efficacy.

But if you think I’m exaggerating the extent of the problem, then these efficacy questions loom large indeed!

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

I think anybody who tells you that experiments along the lines I’m talking about won’t affect efficacy is selling you something, watch your wallet.

It’s all about the diagnosis of the problem. If you think the modern state needs political legitimacy for admin, then we need to get going . . .

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Alaina Kinol @alainakinol.bsky.social · 1d

I've been desperate to hear discussions of what building a US gov looks like after this admin and @beaubaumann.bsky.social 's piece was thought-provoking in a parallel direction. Genuinely though, can we do post-trump with current political parties? lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta gut the Democratic Party the same as Trump did with the GOP in 2016. That’s a necessary precondition for anything good. It needs to be a vanguard party.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Adios!

Reform UK Is Driving the Tory Party Out of Business

Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement carried out a hostile takeover of the US Republican Party a decade ago, the UK’s Conservatives are watching as the new firm next door pitches policies to voters th...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 1d

Pushing “market logic” into higher education has made the wealthy schools richer and the poorly resourced schools poorer.

@lookheron.bsky.social builds on his arguments and findings in his recent report for @lpeblog.bsky.social.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Or alternatively you need to unsubmerge the state! But that’s an intergenerational undertaking and super hard. Thank you for interacting with my work!

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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 1d

As @beaubaumann.bsky.social notes, "Good policy does not necessarily bring about favorable public opinion or political support for progressive initiatives. We can’t rely on effective governance to legitimize itself." I completely agree.

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 1d

"Opponents of MAGA have faltered, chanting 'expertise' like a spell that’s lost its magic. Knowledge-based authority was a historically contingent mode of governing authority that no longer resonates. This is evident in figures like RFK Jr., whose anti-vaccine stance rejects science outright."

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

An interesting historical question for people to ponder! My guess is they’re probably endogenous + influenced my materialistic lived realities. But 🤷🏻‍♂️

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Right. In a crisis of authority people gravitate towards mysticisms, faith, and magical thinking precisely because the universe seems more unruly. These interlocked phenomena.

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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social · 1d

Good read!

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

As a historical matter, this decline started before I was born. But we’re reaching a breaking point that evidence a crisis in authority. Paying homage to the old gods no longer seems viable.

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is part-and-parcel to a decline in expertise-based authority that’s more central to discussions in admin law. This is a huge problem across the board.

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Wendy! Agree with that reminder!

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Probably would have cited this in my post today if it had come out a little earlier.

Sitaraman on the Secular Decline of the American State

Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt Law School) has posted The Secular Decline of the American State (N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Trump administration’s ass…

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to know more about Vought this NYT The Daily episode from yesterday is great. He’s highly competent and a fanatic

The ‘Grim Reaper’ of the Government Shutdown

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Dan Walters @profdanwalters.bsky.social · 1d

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, I did a blog post today at @lpeproject.bsky.social that’s really about the death of a 20 c mode of liberal/progressive politics. It’s about the need, as a first-order objective, to relegitimize the state around a representational legitimacy.

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Worth noting I think . . .

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