I believe you are correct. He is reiterating the essense of the Progressive movement.
The Progressive theorists believed limitations on government power were horrible mistakes. Those limitations prevented the wonderful people in government from doing all the good things they would do, if only the government were not bound by the chains of the Constitution.
Levinson puts forward the two main arguments of the Progressive movement:
1. That was then, this is now. Everything changes all the time. Human nature is completely maleable. Since everything changes, the Government has to change all the rules all the time to make things work well. Progressive experts can do this.
2. Progressive experts can only make everything work well, with all the changes that need to be made all the time, if they have unlimited power. The Constitution places horrible constraints on government, so it has to be neutered or worked around.
One thing that never changes however is man’s God-given right to self defense. No matter how many ways the left try to deny us that right, the right is God given and can not be taken away- every man has a right and Indeed obligation to defend themselves, family and country.
The Biden admin is hell bent on doing just this - ignoring SCOTUS decisions such as repaying student loans - and the DOJ ignoring Congressional subpoenas - while imprisoning figures like former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for doing the same thing.
Oh, and Hunter Biden being given pass after pass and/or special treament.
"The DOJ scuttled searches of Biden property and gave Hunter a heads up before attempts to interview him.
Ultimately, the DOJ cut a plea bargain with Hunter including an absurd immunity agreement that would bar future charges."
We have a break down in the Rule of Law - along with a two-tiered justice system that favors some over others:
"U.S. Department of Agriculture is using race, gender or other 'socially disadvantaged' traits to determine who gets disaster and pandemic farm aid and how much."
This will ramp up if Biden (God Forbid) is reelected.
“Human nature is completely maleable.”
No, it isn’t.
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