I appreciate this. I have noticed an emerging cohort of voices rejecting the strongman, Caesarist position as the way forward. I think it is notable that the things under attack in our current moment are not the preconditions for Prussianism but the tenets of self-rule. The left would probably respond to an actual strongman with the same histrionic behavior as they responded to Trump but seem significantly more threatened by the tradition of self-rule.
I appreciate this. I have noticed an emerging cohort of voices rejecting the strongman, Caesarist position as the way forward. I think it is notable that the things under attack in our current moment are not the preconditions for Prussianism but the tenets of self-rule. The left would probably respond to an actual strongman with the same histrionic behavior as they responded to Trump but seem significantly more threatened by the tradition of self-rule.