Democracy 2.0
As someone who disapproved of George W. Bush on most fronts, I fully agreed with Daniel Larison’s comments on how many people who are so offended by Donald Trump never showed a proportional revulsion to Bush: “One of the remarkable things about this election is the sheer intensity of hostility to Trump from many of the same movement conservatives who shrugged at Bush’s far more serious betrayals and failures… (People that now panic) didn’t care when Bush expanded the security state, trampled on the Constitution, or launched an unnecessary war of aggression.” Or is there a deeper, more fundamental change going on with the very idea of democracy, wonders Santosh Desai : “Think of yesterday’s ‘cooler’ democracy as a wire that transported energy from the public to the state, but one that came clad in protective insulation of many kinds. What we are seeing today is the gradual stripping of this protective insulation.” And today? “The democracy of today is thus a ‘hot’ democra...