Devolution Power Hour Ep. 472: Rushmore, Resilience, and Retro-Constitutionalism
Happy 250th!. Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off Independence Day weekend with fireworks (literal and rhetorical), breaking down Trump's Mount Rushmore anniversary speech and his stop at the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library. They dig into the "communism is a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor" line, unpack what "third term" chatter actually means once you filter out the media panic, and get into the Supreme Court's Slaughter decision on independent agencies.
There's a full read through of the newly surfaced National Resilience Strategy, a surprisingly stealthy White House document with some…
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