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No, I'm claiming that multiple informal *sources* of explicit legal rules are (decorum, civility, notions of PC) are basically equivalent modulo power.
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Sure, my point here was inspired by Trump's WH saying it's going to put out new rules for press briefings since their informal idea of "decorum" was violated by inconveniently hostile reporters like Acosta. Hypocrisy is that Trump routinely behaves 10x worse in decorous settings
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The point is, norm was *not* strong enough for Trump so he was imposing a stronger norm, and when reporters refused to abide by it, he tried and failed to deny his privileges on a whim, and is now formally strengthening the norms that were enough for a POTUS who held up his end
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I don't think he was out of line so much as tracking the shifting line. He was escalating in response to Trump being out of line in the extent of his evasion, specific targeting of CNN etc. He was tracking a shifting norm as in "okay, so we're playing hardball now are we?"
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I think escalation and norm-breaking are an essential thing and in fact a mark of smartness, not foolishness. Otherwise you're just trapped in non-functional ritual. The prize is not stupid: it is moving the conversation to a more consequential arena. The court in this case.
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