One important issue is how much funding the Society has. I asked this question, but they declined to provide a number. My guess is that they have at least enough money to take them to the 2024 election, but I don’t know what it looks like for them after that. A lot will turn on the outcome of the election, I suspect.
George Conway hates Donald Trump, not exactly breaking news. Also, it is somewhat confusing to excoriate Donald Trump as some sort of a threat to the Constitution, when Joe Biden routinely issues executive orders that circumvent Congress and as the Twitter File and the on going work of Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger on the Biden’ Administration’s assault on the first amendment
You might appreciate the X thread by Casey Mattox that is linked in the piece. Excerpts:
"If you're concerned about a future Trump, limit the unconstitutional power of a current Biden. The executive branch has grown far too powerful. The entire federal government has grown far too powerful. And not in ways that the Constitution sanctions.
If you want to reduce the power that a future Trump would have, join the movement - largely driven by people associated with FedSoc—to restore federalism and separation of powers. Oppose executive orders Biden acknowledged he lacks the power to issue before issuing them.
Student loans, vaccines, the 'whole of government' approach to ESG, etc. from the Biden Administration were unconstitutional. And would/would have expanded the powers available to a Trump. So if you care about the Rule of Law, limit the imperial Presidency. I welcome the help."
Your point was that you don’t understand why people view Trump as a threat while Biden gets away with unconstitutional EOs and an assault on 1A, correct? I’m saying that’s a false equivalency.
To say both administrations have engaged in unconstitutional actions is a defensible position. To say both pose the same risks to democracy is, in my view, a false equivalency because Trump is the greater threat.
What make him the greater threat. Because he isn’t always polite? Mean tweets?
Biden is the bigger threat. The shear incompetence of this administration is stunning. Jimmy Carter can go to his grave a happy man.
I don’t know if it was the shambolic exit from Afgistan or the highest inflation level in 40 years. Or blithely making the taxpayers responsible for debt taken on by others.
That’s on top of the issues I previously cited. Biden is in my opinion an incompetent fascist
Really. Trump didn’t sign executive orders that circumvented Congress, he didn’t sic his Justice Department on Crooked Hillary. He didn’t use the FBI, CIA, CDC, and other government agencies and private agencies to undermine American’s first Amendment rights. So how is he more dangerous than Biden?
I still don’t understand this obsession with January 6th incident. BLM riots caused billions in damages, many people lost their lives, business closed doors forever and racial relationships have been badly damaged. DEI is wreaking havoc at universities and in corporate world but Orange Man is still bad. Weird...
Thanks, David. Curious to see how the "Society" progresses, if at all...
One important issue is how much funding the Society has. I asked this question, but they declined to provide a number. My guess is that they have at least enough money to take them to the 2024 election, but I don’t know what it looks like for them after that. A lot will turn on the outcome of the election, I suspect.
Totally agree. By the way, been a fan since the ATL days. Keep doing your thing!
So glad they walked back the criticism. We may need both organizations. Horses for courses. Why fight?
George Conway hates Donald Trump, not exactly breaking news. Also, it is somewhat confusing to excoriate Donald Trump as some sort of a threat to the Constitution, when Joe Biden routinely issues executive orders that circumvent Congress and as the Twitter File and the on going work of Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger on the Biden’ Administration’s assault on the first amendment
You might appreciate the X thread by Casey Mattox that is linked in the piece. Excerpts:
"If you're concerned about a future Trump, limit the unconstitutional power of a current Biden. The executive branch has grown far too powerful. The entire federal government has grown far too powerful. And not in ways that the Constitution sanctions.
If you want to reduce the power that a future Trump would have, join the movement - largely driven by people associated with FedSoc—to restore federalism and separation of powers. Oppose executive orders Biden acknowledged he lacks the power to issue before issuing them.
Student loans, vaccines, the 'whole of government' approach to ESG, etc. from the Biden Administration were unconstitutional. And would/would have expanded the powers available to a Trump. So if you care about the Rule of Law, limit the imperial Presidency. I welcome the help."
Full thread here:
https://twitter.com/CaseyMattox_/status/1727336035787694238
Thank you so much for your response. That is why I subscribe to your Substack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
I don’t get your point
Your point was that you don’t understand why people view Trump as a threat while Biden gets away with unconstitutional EOs and an assault on 1A, correct? I’m saying that’s a false equivalency.
To say both administrations have engaged in unconstitutional actions is a defensible position. To say both pose the same risks to democracy is, in my view, a false equivalency because Trump is the greater threat.
What make him the greater threat. Because he isn’t always polite? Mean tweets?
Biden is the bigger threat. The shear incompetence of this administration is stunning. Jimmy Carter can go to his grave a happy man.
I don’t know if it was the shambolic exit from Afgistan or the highest inflation level in 40 years. Or blithely making the taxpayers responsible for debt taken on by others.
That’s on top of the issues I previously cited. Biden is in my opinion an incompetent fascist
Really. Trump didn’t sign executive orders that circumvented Congress, he didn’t sic his Justice Department on Crooked Hillary. He didn’t use the FBI, CIA, CDC, and other government agencies and private agencies to undermine American’s first Amendment rights. So how is he more dangerous than Biden?
You will have to explain that,
I still don’t understand this obsession with January 6th incident. BLM riots caused billions in damages, many people lost their lives, business closed doors forever and racial relationships have been badly damaged. DEI is wreaking havoc at universities and in corporate world but Orange Man is still bad. Weird...