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French Friday: What Happened to Checks & Balances? (Patreon)

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2025-01-31 11:00:08

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David French brings us his thoughts on why the GOP is no longer the party of the Constitution. Have political party allegiances broken the system? What Constitutional guard rails can operate when people are worried about falling out of the President’s favor? Then, he talks about Carl Schmitt, a German political thinker who may have the key to understanding the difference between the politics we’re used to—and the emerging politics of the New Right.

David French’s article on Schmittian politics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/opinion/trump-maga-schmitt.html