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The Conservative Love of Right-Wing Dictatorship

Keith Preston

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025
Inheriting a strong, centralized state apparatus is part of the secret of the successes of both the Jacobin terror and of Bonaparte.
– Anthony de Jasay, The State [1985]

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March 21, 2025
The Conservative Love of Right-Wing Dictatorship
The issue revolving around the Trump administration’s intentional violation of an order of a federal judge to not deport a group of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador — and the Justice Department’s refusal to provide answers to questions posed by that judge about circumstances surrounding those deportations — does not revolve around whether a person loves or hates Donald Trump. The issue also …
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