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People like to say that judges don't have armies. Neither does the president. All power is an illusion, mediated by ceremony and accepted norms. What matters isn't that the President is the notional CINC. He doesn't have the authority he claims to have. What matters is what individual people do.

May 19, 2025, 7:50 PM

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