Can't impeach without a crime. Can't subpoena documents or witnesses that might prove a crime. Can't charge obstruction of justice when subpoenas are ignored. Can't conduct investigations that might, even incidentally, expose presidential crimes.https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-metastasizing-crisis-executive-authority-and-the-crumbling-of-the-separation-of-powers/ …
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PS: We’re getting the full circle of impunity argued *in one day*. GOP in the Senate says House should have gone to court to enforce subpoenas before impeaching; DOJ in court says courts can’t enforce the subpoenas, remedy is impeachment by the House. https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1222967711426338818?s=21 …https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1222967711426338818 …
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I've been meaning to write something on Trump as our Napoleon III.
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Every week was infrastructure week in the Second Empire.
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Yes but I don't think the founders reckoned with the possibility of the built in minoritarianism (senate, EC) of their system being used to prop up an UNPOPULAR demagogue. Bonapartism is reactionary, but it's also purely majoritarian
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This is why I actually think traditional monarchism is the right analogy: minoritarian, aristocratic checks designed to insulate a ruling class from the popular will. It's early 19th/late 18th Toryism more than anything else
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