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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When all else fails, they go back to Hitler.
Trump=Hitler? Das kaput!!
The typing stool-samples at the WaPo discovered the enabling acts of 1933? They didn’t say anything for any of Obama’s 12 national emergencies.
Occam’s Razor dictates that this is a manifestation of Godwin’s Law.
On the other hand, I shot Schrödinger’s cat with Chekhov’s gun.
At least 30 other times emergency powers have been used in the last few decades. But NOW it means “Hitler”.
Erm...Emergency powers are akin to martial law. A National emergency contains the word ‘emergency’, so it must be the same thing. If everyone could just panic and head for the exits, that would be great. Cuz, it’s like, you know, an emergency.
Hitler had only just one ball
Goering had two but very small
Himmler had something similar
And Goebells had no balls
At all!
Har!
Sung to the tune of Bridge On The River Kwai. Sorry...
It’s called “The Colonel Bogey March.”
Or in the case of horse dropping rolled in powdered sugar. A doughnut hole. Just saying.
Tell the gang of 8 about misuse of power. If they’re going to OK a coup then let Trump fight fire with fire.
Oh, thanks, it’s been a while... I can still whistle it, though!
Why wasn’t this an issue when Barrack Hussein aka Soetero aka Dunham was president?
Ever notice how the left always accuses others if what they do?
Right out of Saul slinsky.
LOL!!
We just might see that happen.
Did this ever come up when Obama used emergency powers?
Thank you!
I forgot the last line, that sounds like this:
Doo Doo Doo Doot Do Doo! At least, to my ears, but they’ve been Van Halenized, so my huh? may vary... Too much fun! Yay!
Sung to the tune of 'Colonel Bogey March'
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