nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220316-001200-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220315s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220316-001200-0 doi eng 342 23 Scheuerman, William E. Author aut Trump’s Straussian Shyster - The constitutional interpretation that underlies ideological Trumpism Scheuerman, William E. Verfassungsblog 2022-03-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Emails now available to US House of Representatives’ investigators suggest that John C. Eastman, the Trump lawyer behind the failed attempt to overturn the presidential election results, knew that his activities violated the US Electoral Count Act. Eastman’s activities shed light on ideological traits of Trumpism that have received little attention from legal scholars. He and other hardcore Trump disciples have relied on a highly selective interpretation of the ideas of Leo Strauss (1899-1973), the German Jewish refugee political thinker, to justify Trump’s authoritarian proclivities. Their ideological brew continues to threaten constitutional government in the United States. CC BY-SA 4.0 constitutional reactionism Donald Trump US constitution Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/trumps-straussian-shyster/ raw object