If you don’t define how a leader is selected, constrained, replaced, or held to account, you’re not designing a system, you’re offering a narrative container that people can fill with whatever authority figure they already want. That's the hollowness at the heart of his entire intellectual project.
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If you don’t define how a leader is selected, constrained, replaced, or held to account, you’re not designing a system, you’re offering a narrative container that people can fill with whatever authority figure they already want. That's the hollowness at the heart of his entire intellectual project.
He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
He’s compelling to some people because he notices genuine failures. But in my framework these failures come from the collapse of the verification–deliberation–accountability cycle. Fix that and the system can work, ignore it and nothing will.
"Matt Gaetz raped a homeless teenager and yet remains a free man because he's friendly with the current administration, where the president is also embroiled with accusations of rape and sex trafficking" is what you meant to write, one would hope.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Matt Gaetz raped a homeless teenager and yet remains a free man because he's friendly with the current administration, where the president is also embroiled with accusations of rape and sex trafficking" is what you meant to write, one would hope.