here is a long thread about how the federal government can end run the Constitution in just about any way you like bringing this up For No Particular Reasonhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1276663566427283456 …
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Trump, Obama, Bush, Gingrich, and Clinton also destroyed norms; political ones, of course. as someone observed elsewhere, we are a nation of norms. (perhaps this is what a nation is: a collection of norms) (link to my pinned tweet, ha ha ha)
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things that seem likely to me: 1. freedoms in some sense are downstream of norms. 2. some norms permit a broader swathe of freedoms than others. 3. norms are frequently socially load-bearing beyond their overt purposes
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overall I see what is happening now as both a discrete crisis and a symptom of deep social decay not captured by the usual metrics that social scientists like to use as objectives, and I am growing more pessimistic about the near future.
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