My argument is that democracy *unconstrained by the sorts of limits we enjoy in a Constitutional republic that protects individual economic and social rights* hampers minority rights. I am all for some democracy-increasing things, like automatic voter registration, no felon bans https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1027607042201145344 …
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Does that argument hold up in an increasingly centralized state with a powerful executive? We’ve been in a de facto Schmittian state of exception since at least 9/12/2001, maybe since the 1930s, maybe 1860s, depending on how you count.
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