{"id":111679,"date":"2025-03-24T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/24\/harvard-law-professor-compares-maga-politics-to-deadly-virus-set-to-take-out-american-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T00:01:26","slug":"harvard-law-professor-compares-maga-politics-to-deadly-virus-set-to-take-out-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/24\/harvard-law-professor-compares-maga-politics-to-deadly-virus-set-to-take-out-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Professor Compares MAGA Politics To Deadly \u2018Virus\u2019 Set To Take Out American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
(Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking for an explosion, a kind of moment of crisis \u2015 what physicists like to call a singularity in a kind of unique episode of presidential defiance of a court order \u2015 that\u2019s misleading. It frames what we are experiencing in the wrong way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, we have allowed the body politic to be hollowed out by a virus. A virus that attacks the very foundations of the rule of law on which the government really rests. It\u2019s a virus we have to fight with all our energy, without waiting for just the right moment. You know, it\u2019s a disease if you think about it. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for the moment of crisis is like looking for the shiny object and taking our eyes off the disease that is spreading and that we really have to fight \u2015 the virus we need to fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor Laurence Tribe<\/a> of Harvard Law School, in comments given during a recent appearance on MSNBC<\/a>, where he compares the deterioration of democracy<\/a> in the United States to a virus, noting that it \u201creached fever pitch around the Jan. 6 insurrection,\u201d and that now even judges aren\u2019t able to \u201cfully keep pace with the mayhem.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\"Staci
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Harvard Law Professor Compares MAGA Politics To Deadly \u2018Virus\u2019 Set To Take Out American Democracy<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"
(Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking for an explosion, a kind of moment of crisis \u2015 what physicists like to call a singularity in a kind of unique episode of presidential defiance of a court order \u2015 that\u2019s misleading. It frames what we are experiencing in the wrong way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years, we have allowed the body politic to be hollowed out by a virus. A virus that attacks the very foundations of the rule of law on which the government really rests. It\u2019s a virus we have to fight with all our energy, without waiting for just the right moment. You know, it\u2019s a disease if you think about it. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for the moment of crisis is like looking for the shiny object and taking our eyes off the disease that is spreading and that we really have to fight \u2015 the virus we need to fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Professor Laurence Tribe<\/a> of Harvard Law School, in comments given during a recent appearance on MSNBC<\/a>, where he compares the deterioration of democracy<\/a> in the United States to a virus, noting that it \u201creached fever pitch around the Jan. 6 insurrection,\u201d and that now even judges aren\u2019t able to \u201cfully keep pace with the mayhem.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\"Staci
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Looking for an explosion, a kind of moment of crisis \u2015 what physicists like to call a singularity in a kind of unique episode of presidential defiance of a court order \u2015 that\u2019s misleading. It frames what we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-8OXMxN.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}