The COUP IN THE US IS VERY REAL

There is no excuse for people failing to understand what is happening in the USA – substack offers many attempts at explanation with Mike Brock (who profiles himself very coherently in the link) and his Notes from the Circus perhaps being the best. His post “The Plot Against America” detailed the history of the right-wing writers who have railed against democracy, including forgotten names such as Curtis Yarvin, Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Willian Rees-Mog eg -

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a student of Mises's protégé Murray Rothbard, took libertarian skepticism of the state to its extreme conclusion. His 2001 book “Democracy: The God That Failed” landed like a bombshell in libertarian circles. Published at a moment when many Americans still saw democracy as the “end of history,” Hoppe argued that democracy was an inherently unstable system, one that incentivized short-term decision-making and mob rule rather than rational governance. His alternative? A return to monarchy.

The Political Quarterly is one of my favourite journals – ploughing the social democratic cause since 1930 and has recently documented Trump’s travails in Venn diagrams

I am heartened by the substack just started by Adam Przewoski - perhaps the most insightful writer still alive about democracy - who has decided to give us a weekly assessment of what is going on in the US. This is his post for the 2nd week  and the most recent.

And also by the more than 100 legal challenges which have been made by US States, unions and other bodies to Trump's actions - itemised on this tracker

Other relevant articles

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets?_sp=18e4be2f-5eaa-4083-9b8c-7d5f05d2466a.1738893276242

https://medium.com/emergent-dialogue/building-my-case-for-epistemic-liberalism-and-why-the-sovereign-individual-is-epistemically-59c9201e72c6

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america/comments

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-weeks-ten-reasons-for-modest?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=158231811&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=aefb6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Paul Krugman’s discussion with Kim Lane Scheppele https://substack.com/home/post/p-158545490

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157558457 US in FReefall

https://substack.com/@larryjdiamond

https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=158714964&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=aefb6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email