Minority Rule: The US Is Not a Democracy, with Prof. Aziz Rana
Rania Khalek Dispatches
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The Difference Between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party
Eight of the nine justices on the court were appointed by republicans. The one person that was not appointed by a republican, white had been appointed by kennedy and was actually opposed to rove wade. In a way, precisely because the republican party has lost the battle of ideas, what's happened is that during the period when it declined as a majority party, the court became really central to stant in its ideological egenda. And so the party, in a way, ends up in vesting in minority rule, precisely in the moments when it doesn't have majority support. This is a dynamic that i think is a peculiar feature of american authority ism,. which is
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