still thinking about this because it seems quite hopeless overall loury and murray (and me) would really love a return to american liberal norms, and murray is trying to attain this by the art of gentle persuasion but i dont think that matters much because as he notes: lawhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1407282039414411266 …
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"we'll simply change the laws" maybe at the state level. the feds wont much like that. but maybe you can get away with it. as loury/murray noted, worked for sanctuary cities and weed. but the captured bureaucracies are relatively indifferent to those things.
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maybe you can get an aggressive supreme court ruling that would effectively gut the bureaucraahahahaha when has the supreme court ever reduced the scope of the bureaucracy who do you imagine would win if the bureaucracy decided to fight back
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considering these options i guess im most optimistic about states functioning as redoubts, but i think even that path is pretty fraught
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this is a rotten place to be and if you just look at it outwardly it seems like it happened overnight, but the legal and bureaucratic infrastructure that enabled it to happen has been built slowly over more than a century
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New institutions need to be built on their own sources of political power, otherwise they’re feckless
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i think thats probably correct. hmmm.
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