Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“The feeling among populists — and revolutionaries — is always that the status quo is unjust. And if the outcome is unjust, then the system that produced the outcome must be unjust, too. That is why you see so much contempt for norms, procedures, constitutional checks and balances, and things of that nature among populists. The Trump-aligned populists obviously are the more relevant ones just now, but the Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren followers have just as much contempt for norms and the rule of law when it comes to things like property rights, investment income, corporate governance, etc., and government’s effect on these. Another way of saying this is that there is one vision of justice that is substantive and another that is procedural.” (11/25/24)