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ALT it is no accident that we are living through a purge of Black officials from the military and civilian administrative state. Removing Black public servants is a spectacle of domination that ritualistically reinforces the imperial presidency. Pairing these spectacles with narratives equating Black public service with corruption, incompetence, and illegality is itself meant to paint the purge as restoration. The President becomes the leader of a newly restored natural order. The state unifies around him.
ALT To the extent any elected government—from municipalities to a supranational union—retains sufficient autonomy to revive the social democratic project, I am all for it. But even if we succeed in these endeavors, we still face a looming challenge: we might simply repeat the process of the past half-century, during which private power dismantled social democracies. As long as private law enjoys the full backing of state power even when it is diametrically opposed to the interests of the democratic polity, such an outcome is almost inevitable. This is why I insist that for lasting change, private law itself must be transformed and normatively reset.
