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The Rise of the Illiberal Right

Know Your Enemy

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What Are the Limits of Civil Liberties?

i think that we've established that. Look, there's an argument that's been going on in the right for since trump was elected about what are the constraints wat wat? And can we do away with civil liberties, if it is for the purpose of protecting our concept of the highest good,. manipulating democracy to insure that this minority continues to have all the political power in this country? I think what's interesting about this discussion is it provides this kind of connective tissue between the intellectual debates on the right, happening at the highest levels, and what the politicians and political appointees are doing on the ground. It doesn't matter whether they're a majority or not, they're going to get

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