Is Impeachment Best Construed and Pursued as Antipolitics or Politics? In his excellent new piece, @jeetheer asks and answers this pivotal question. https://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-protest-streets-trump/ …
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Replying to @adamlebovitz @jeetheer
I wouldn't disagree, except that nobody now thinks that electoral legitimation means representatives are (factually, let alone normatively) independent of mobilization between elections. Therefore...
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Replying to @samuelmoyn @jeetheer
We all wish for a different set of institutions. The question is whether representation + mobs is better or worse, from the point of view of democracy, than just representation. And I'm not at all confident.
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Without "mobs" we would never have representation at all. All democracy as we know it was born of protest.
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