Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Lawlessness at the Top and the Bottom of Society

Lawfare and overregulation at the top; toleration and promotion of crimininality among the lower orders. A depredatory theme of the previous administration.

Overregulation is well documented by Neil Gorsuch in his Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, HarperCollins 2024.

You should rejoice that the destructive Dems have met their nemesis. Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution. 'Retribution' has two senses, a fact one cannot expect dumb Dems to understand. The one sense is that of 'revenge'; the other is that of 'retributive justice.' The national course correction being engineered by President Donald J. Trump and his team has much more the latter in it than the former.


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2 responses to “Lawlessness at the Top and the Bottom of Society”

  1. EG Avatar
    EG

    Hi Bill,
    Perhaps I can ask: what does law and order mean for Trump, Musk and his team? How much does, or doesn’t, ethics bind what anybody who is President and his team do?

  2. BV Avatar
    BV

    The post is about the positive law, not about ethics.
    Of course, POTUS and his team is bound by ethics, and surely he and they are far more ethical than his and their political enemies.

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