@davidallengreen

Your account was the first account I followed here on Mastodon when the great migration wave brought us all here in November 2022. My app shows your name at the very beginning of my list of followed accounts. You've been such an important voice all along. So sorry that there have been dissonances. Breaks can be productive --- I hope you will return. I'll stay tuned!

#DavidAllenGreen #TheVoiceOfReason #BreakAndReturn

@davidallengreen

"From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well."

"Yet there is also a possibility that after this period of increasing executive power there could be an equal and opposite reaction: that there will be a nemesis to the illiberal hubris. Most people may want a balance and not an imbalance between politics and law, with the overall position not lopsided in either direction. And so the contest between power and restraint may not yet be over."

Well-reasoned analysis, as ever.

Holding on to the cautious hope expressed in your last paragraph.

#DavidAllenGreen #LegalRestraint #AttorneyGeneral #BalanceOfPower #liberalism #UKpol #USpol

@davidallengreen

Thank you, #DavidAllenGreen, for your wise essay. A brutally sharp analysis of the irreversibility of the "revolution" we currently experience, and of our lack of concepts for it. No easy answers. Lots to think about.

"But instead of the caution of old-style conservatives, the new conservatives see that very fragility as an opportunity to trash and to damage."

"The problem is that old categories and concepts often do not match the novelty of what is now unfolding. We may need to think about things in a new way --- so as to work out to defeat what is unwelcome."

Wise words of warning.

#Trump #DiplomaticRevolution #resistance