American despotism: “America is now in the deepest, most dangerous constitutional crisis since the hostility in the 1850s that led to secession and civil war.”
It certainly seems so.
[Update a few more minutes later]
“How the hell do you think veterans feel right now?”
I was in San Juan, about to head to the airport for a flight back to California, I was about to call a cab when I saw the second plane hit the second tower. I instantly realized that we were at war, and that there was no point in going to the airport.
But twenty-two years on, we seem to have forgotten it ever happened.
[Update a few minutes later]
Glenn Reynolds remembers, and he’s angry. So am I.
If there was one person in history that I’d go back and put an end to with my time machine, it wouldn’t be Hitler, or Marx. It would be Rousseau, who was the originator of collectivist totalitarianism.