Adam Serwer says the GOP remains fixated on the alleged tyranny of a democratically elected president and Congress pursuing a publicly predetermined domestic agenda.
James Madison wrote, “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” During our decade-long “war” against terrorism, Americans acquiesced, fearfully, to the Bush administration’s assertion of the “inherent” powers of warrantless surveillance, torture, and indefinite detention for terror suspects captured away from the battlefield.