it's like calling someone a "n-word love", or saying they're "woke". The fact that it's so normalized is pretty much entirely the fault of the lost cause narrative taught for decades in US textbooks.

Hey Dean, I know you don't really think this but it sounds like you're comparing people moving to your city to an invasion, and well certain other people talk about immigration in those terms, I am sure you don't want to be in their company.

This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

I'm more likely to say "tankie" than "campist" but I've got mad respect for her.

Do you think it's particularly well-suited to civilian self-defense? I think if I had your concerns I'd buy a handgun.

(I ask partly because the obvious unsuitability of the AR-15 for deer hunting makes me think the main draw is it makes people feel macho.)

I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant

I think you mean Eddie, not Billy, but yeah you're 100% right. Honestly this is the first I'm hearing anyone had this complaint. Was just totally obvious to me.

Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.

Strong message from Congressman Moulton:

“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”