… Catholic integralist Adrian Vermeule invokes his triune Godhead: Giuliani, Eastman, and Clark. Where, he asks, was the rule of law (which his colleagues worry about in their letter) when those great and good men were trying to make the world safe for Donald Trump?
And as to what Vermeule means by the rule of law – listen as he lays out his law-ruled ideal state:
Subjects will come to thank the ruler whose legal strictures, possibly experienced at first as coercive, encourage subjects to form more authentic desires for the individual and common goods, better habits, and beliefs that better track and promote communal well-being.
Yup. Right outta 1984. ‘He loved Big Brother.’ This is the rule of rulers, not the rule of law.