http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/14257eaeff2beccd https://verfassungsblog.de/trumps-straussian-shysters-the-scary-sequel/ Trump’s Straussian Shysters: The Scary Sequel Scheuerman, William E. eng 2025-02-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Authoritarian Populism Claremont Institute Donald Trump Post-Constitutionalism Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Nearly three years ago I wrote here about the far-right constitutional theory behind Trump lawyer John Eastman’s role in the inept yet deadly January 6, 2021 coup attempt against then President-elect Joe Biden. I described the idiosyncratic reworking by Eastman and other so-called west-coast Straussians at California’s Claremont Institute of the ideas of the German-Jewish refugee Leo Strauss, an imposing, deeply conservative political theorist, into an apology for an executive-directed counterrevolution aimed ostensibly at restoring the original US constitutional order. Little did I imagine that Strauss’ Claremont disciples would soon enjoy a political comeback, and that they would once again be wreaking constitutional havoc.