link to a presentation I did yesterday at Tufts on donald trump's effort to undo the American Revolution by attempting to claim the kind of power associated with 17th century British monarchs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5D3...

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I see that there is a wapo story a few days ago about the office of legal counsel so this is my cue to remind you that the best time to have abolished OLC was the day after it was formed, the second best was the day after torture memos, and the third best is today.

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I'm listening to HW Brand's Traitor to His Class, and it totally slaps. This FDR fella sure has some good ideas

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Smaller venues, empty seats, bored crowds, and a sleepy, confused headliner. The Trump rally is the defining political event of our era, repeated hundreds of times in all its grotesque glory, and now it's limping to an end. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rall...?

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, the "Trump has caused right wing politics to be cool among young people" thing was among the biggest mass delusions of recent politics (rivaled only by the Trump is building a multi-racial coalition).

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