Running for Your Life: Remaking of the Presidency, Talking Points

 Rule of law as it pertains to a reproach of presidential power herein subscribes to mob truth: i.e., there is no legitimate position that would threaten the mob boss. And, yes, the central rule of mob truth is there is always one supreme boss who demands loyalty above all else.

·        The press as it operates in its quaint, constitutional role as the checker and balancer of non-democratic rule is outdated and to be dismissed as such.

·        Corollary to above point: Social media now acts as press. The presidency, in its voices on social media, heralds news as disrupter of responsible journalism, which no longer holds sway, is an artifact of the pre-personal technology era.

·        Tech disrupters like Jeff Bezos of Amazon blur political lines (no universal health care, but health care for benighted employees),  co-opts a crucial part of what’s left of responsible journalism by going out and buying the Washington Post company.

·        Democrats, who choose to make common cause with the tech disrupters, mark an earlier state in the postmodern presidency. Call it the tech-big government-deep state complex.

·        The current president does that one better: he takes up his own giant space on Twitter as presidential disrupter to promote mob rule; one fact is right, all others evil and corrupt.

·        Control philosophy rooted in the thinking and Leviathan practices of one Roy Cohn, one-time mentor to the current president.  

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