This video of Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has been making the rounds. Apparently, the Constitution is a little too hard for him to understand because it’s so (gasp) old.
Ok, I know that’s not exactly what he was trying to say. Mr. Wonk here was just arguing that the founding document of this country is open to some measure of judicial interpretation. Though, it almost appears here that he’s dismissing the use of any legal framework that’s open to such interpretation. How can any system function with such ambiguity?
I think he’s actually chafing against the constraints of any legal framework at all. The following quote I think gives a truly frightening view into the mind of Mr. Wonky Wonk Wonk (h/t):
The problem with the Nazis was that they were genocidal white supremacists with an appetite for continental hegemony. To invoke them in order to tar, by association, privatization, or “appeasement,” or socialist policies, or other policies that were not related to their murderous crimes is a noxious debate tactic that should be widely and rapidly condemned
Yeah, that was a clarification he added to a post praising the economic miracle of Nazi Keynesianism, as if their economic policy could be decoupled from their totalitarianism. If you think that, I have this neat little book for you, and it’s a quick read. In Mr. Wonkster’s little Fascist brain, if the Nazis just eased up on the death camps and the foreign invasions, they would have been a perfectly fine regime. It’s like he learned his political philosophy from bad Star Trek episodes.
Needless to say, if if that’s the only thing you find objectionable about the Nazis, you may just have some problem getting the concept of a constitutionally limited government with strictly enumerated powers.