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    1. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      Proposed: We're arguing about court packing because we're already knee-deep into a slow-motion crisis of democratic legitimacy.

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    2. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      Many conservatives want to deny it, because they have a different implicit model of legitimacy. But intractable disagreement about the conditions for the valid exercise of political authority JUST IS the crisis.

      6 replies 32 retweets 281 likes
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    3. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      The legitimacy of political authority is a bit like money. Money is money because people agree that it's money. If a huge number of people stop treating a currency as an acceptable method of payment, it stops functioning the way money is supposed to.

      6 replies 45 retweets 270 likes
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    4. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      When legitimacy breaks down, authority starts to disintegrate into mere power. But there's no civil way to adjudicate a dispute over the validity of claims to mere power when the crux of the dispute is the validity of current control of the civil adjudication mechanism.

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    5. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      My off-the-cuff diagnosis is that incompatible conceptions of legitimate authority are embedded in our political tradition/system. The system can hold together despite these tensions, but only if there's some advantage to each major faction in elements of each conception.

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    6. Will Wilkinson  🌐‏Verified account @willwilkinson 17 Sep 2019

      But once each of these rival conceptions of legitimacy begins to align relatively neatly with the political advantage of rival factions, the faction in control will be motivated to reject the constraints of the other model of legitimacy.

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    7. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 17 Sep 2019
      Replying to @willwilkinson

      these threads make me wish i had a podcast where i could just talk political theory and philosophy

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2019
      Replying to @jbouie @willwilkinson

      Do it!

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        1. Sam Bagenstos‏Verified account @sbagen 17 Sep 2019
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          Endorse!

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        1. Heckin’ of Troy‏ @OnlyTheEarth 17 Sep 2019
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          That would be great! Please do!

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