Posted on 02/19/2019 8:27:34 PM PST by EdnaMode
President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to seek funds for building a wall on the southern U.S. border relies for its authority on the 1976 National Emergencies Act, which gives presidents sweeping powers to address what they declare are urgent crises. But for a historian of modern Germany, it’s impossible to avoid recalling the way emergency declarations unsettled the Weimar Republic after World War I.
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At the time, the conservative German theorist Carl Schmitt offered a legal rationale for the “exceptional dictator” equipped with power to overcome a crisis when parliament was too cumbersome to take needed action. Schmitt was what I have described as a “reactionary modernist": an anti-democratic conservative who saw liberal democracy as a formula for national weakness and paralysis. Schmitt saw in “the state of the exception” a powerful argument for the necessity of authoritarian rule, an argument that contributed to his support for Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.
The exaltation of the executive and the attack on the importance of the Reichstag were not only a matter of intellectual reflection. From 1930 to 1932, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning governed by presidential decree and eliminated parliamentary authority over the president and the military. Karl Bracher, in his now-classic 1969 study, “The German Dictatorship,” wrote that “from 1930 on, the existence of an authoritarian Presidential government not subject to the will of the people merely served to increase the trend toward radicalism.” In July 1930, Brüning dissolved parliament after it refused to support him in his authoritarian rule by emergency law and called for new elections. In the resulting September elections in 1930, the Nazis increased their representation in parliament from 12 to 107 deputies.
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Obama never used Emergency powers... /sarc
Far out!
Doing once- what other Presidents did dozens of times- makes Trump ... HITLER!
This is a proper time to invoke Godwin’s Law.
Too late. Barak Hussein Hitler already invoked national emergencies numerous times. I wish this guy had raised the alarm bells back then.
Hitler had 10 fingers. Coincidence?
congress has the power to overrule with a joint resolution
Damn, she’s ugly!
The Constitution has remedy built in...
Idiot...
For s so called historian to make the analogy is pompous and conceited intellect
They really went there.
POTUS Trump wants to protect the Nation’s Borders which is what a POTUS is supposed to do.
The Rat Politicians are threatening to revoke our God Given Constitutional Rights in response.
I’ve got ten dollars says the idiot that wrote that never read “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” or “Spandau” or any other book that tells why Germany went the way they went. I’d bet he couldn’t tell anyone how many wars the US soldiers were in an bled all over the Ardennes. Hiltler was Socialist, so is Cortez, Sanders, Harris, and the rest of that schifts fest. These idiots irritate me some, no all the time.
Unintentional comedy.
With the number of emergency powers that Obama used, he should have been Emperor of the World before he left office.
So the ten times Obama used the power it didn’t count?
And wasn’t written about?
And Himmler used force to attack enemies of Der Fuhrer, probably some of them innocent school children.
He’s a terrible dictator if he allows them to say whatever they want.
Hitler only had one ball. Mein Gott!! President Trump has two!! We're doomed!!
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