Civitas Outlook
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Politics
Published on
March 22, 2025
Contributors
Steven Hayward
John Yoo
Episode
The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Dog Years, Dog Days

About this episode

Trump does more consequential things in a day than most presidents do in a month, so we may need to measure his tenure in office in dog years. It must certainly seem like dog days for the left, which is lying prostrate on the ground much of the time, panting and out of breath, gnawing on a bare bone. After ticking through a number of happy stories this week—the end of DEI at Berkeley; Greenpeace getting nicked for $667 million dollars, Columbia University capitulating to Trump—we get down to the week’s new frontiers of lawfare. Is this moment a “constitutional crisis,” as the left claims, or is it a long overdue moment of constitutional challenge, with the aim being the restoration of the proper dimensions and functions of our republic?

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