“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.” - Jonathan Turley
Those
words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously
called the Constitution “trash” and
urged not just the
abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of
“all voter registration laws.”But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is
becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances.
There is a
counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country...
- It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality.
- They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution...
Of course, it is not revolution on the minds of most of these individuals. It is rage.
Rage is the ultimate drug.
It offers
a release from longstanding social norms — a license to do those things long repressed by individuals who viewed themselves as decent, law-abiding citizens.
The one thing the American Jacobins will not admit is that they like the rage and the release that it brings them.
From shoplifting to arson to
attempted assassination, the
rejection of our legal system brings them freedom to act outside of morality and to take whatever they want...
