Trump’s Straussian Shyster - The constitutional interpretation that underlies ideological Trumpism
Scheuerman, William E.
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2022
Verfassungsblog
2022-03-15
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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.
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Scheuerman, William E.
constitutional reactionism
Donald Trump
US constitution
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https://verfassungsblog.de/trumps-straussian-shyster/
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