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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
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Let’s be real, though. They didn’t conclude the biggest threat to liberty is powerful people being subject to the rule of law. They concluded that they like Trump, and want Trump to be above the law. If this had been a D former President coming up, no shot they would’ve given them this.
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Like, they didn’t make a bad philosophical choice. They make a nakedly partisan political choice, to choose authoritarian governance under Trump.