28
Oct
Real Originalism
The enemies of American democracy have been gaslighting us for decades with a doctrine they call "originalism" that supposedly justifies every anti-democratic "feature" of our current system as "the wisdom of the founders." The truth, as we'll show in our next four posts, is that real originalism requires rejection of every one of these authoritarian accretions--and the adoption of radical democracy fundamentalist programs to rid us of authoritarianism once and for all....