Editorial: Trump s lawsuits not about speech, but ego
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For a serial suer, former President Donald Trump seems to know remarkably little about the law.
Then, again, it may be his grievances overshadow whatever legal acumen he may possess.
Either way, Trump has done it again.
Trump has been involved in thousands of lawsuits, according to the book “Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits” by James D. Zirin, but his latest may be the most nonsensical.
He has filed class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Google and Twitter, a move sparked by the suspensions the social media giants imposed on the former president after the Capitol siege on Jan. 6.
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In 2016, the German historian and political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller published “What Is Populism?,” a well-timed examination of rising political movements, from the United States to India. He also offered a new definition of the term, proposing that populist leaders are defined less by anti-élitist rhetoric than they are by their insistence that they represent an unheard majority of the people.
Müller has now followed this work with a new book, “Democracy Rules,” which looks at the ways democracy has been weakened over the past several decades, and offers solutions for insuring its survival. “This can be done without simply reinstating traditional gatekeepers,” he writes. “The people themselves are able to determine the ways in which intermediary institutions parties and media, above all should be refashioned.”