New York Times opinion writer and historian Jamelle Bouie breaks down the political theory behind the Trump regime -- why they feel confident that they can and should subdue Senator Alex Padilla, the people of Los Angeles, the people of California, and the entire nation.
... "the president and his various viziers see themselves as the kings of America and the rest of us must obey ...
... "in traditional American political thought, sovereignty belongs to the people...Trump sees his election as something that embodied him as the will of the people ... he is the people in some mystical way and whatever he says goes, he's the boss ... he says that protest constitutes some effort to overturn the will of the people... the political theory of the Trump administration made Trump something like the king, ... unquestioned authority.
... "the Trump government is the closest thing we've ever come to electing the Confederacy... the Confederacy was founded on this fundamental notion that humans were not equal, some were to be high, some were to be low and that's clearly the operating belief system of the administration. ...
... "Kristi Noem is promising a January 6 led by the administration ... they'll storm any capital they need to to make sure that we obey. they don't want to govern us, they want to rule us. "
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