The Political Philosophy of "Fire or suspend!"
By Mark S. Weiner
September 25, 2017 at 12:59PM
via Niskanen Center http://ift.tt/2huzZYC
«In the Trumpian view of politics, the federal government—and the president himself—plays a legitimate and indeed important role when it intrudes into the core decision-making of civil society institutions. Pause for a moment to contemplate the Rubicon we have just crossed: the president has used his bully pulpit to threaten a national boycott of an industry unless its corporate owners heed his own personal assessment of their employment decisions. This is "buy Ivanka's stuff," or "take out a suite in the Trump Hotel," in reverse, and on a much grander scale.»