The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0
Update: 2025-05-27
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The theories of unrestrained executive power guiding the Trump administration's assault on the administrative state and its attitude toward the federal judiciary draw on a far-right intellectual tradition. The thrust of these ideas is that the president must be able to exercise emergency powers and that neither Congress nor the courts should stand in his way. In this episode, political theorist Damon Linker explains the origins of the ideas driving Trump 2.0. Linker writes Notes From the Middleground newsletter on Substack.
Recommended reading:
These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful by Damon Linker (New York Times)
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