Chris Edelson
@chrisedelson.bsky.social
Lecturer @umassamherst.bsky.social US presidential power & authoritarian threats to democracy; speaking only for me Writing a book on emergency presidential power: https://www.rienner.com/title/Above_the_Law_The_Evolution_of_Emergency_Presidential_Power
oh, I agree--I'd just like to see journalists connect the dots to 2016
January 30, 2026 at 10:10 PM
oh, I agree--I'd just like to see journalists connect the dots to 2016
I know a highly educated hedge fund guy who used the word "Marxist" to refer to Dems and sounded like the Rs you describe. I stopped talking to him but wow.
January 30, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I know a highly educated hedge fund guy who used the word "Marxist" to refer to Dems and sounded like the Rs you describe. I stopped talking to him but wow.
seems you are right so far
January 30, 2026 at 12:53 PM
seems you are right so far
that is what constitutional failure means. Since the document is not self-enforcing, when people don't enforce limits on power, the Constitution is failed. It still looks fine on *paper*, but it is simple parchment barriers now, as Madison alluded to in Fed #48.
January 30, 2026 at 12:15 PM
that is what constitutional failure means. Since the document is not self-enforcing, when people don't enforce limits on power, the Constitution is failed. It still looks fine on *paper*, but it is simple parchment barriers now, as Madison alluded to in Fed #48.
voters made such a stupendously bad decision, something akin to giving a bank robber unfettered access to a bank vault
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 AM
voters made such a stupendously bad decision, something akin to giving a bank robber unfettered access to a bank vault