If the twenty-first century has been a war to preserve the establishment's legitimacy, the current battle in the United States is the 2024 presidential election.
In Anatomy of the State, after defining the state as the "Organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area," Murray Rothbard dedicates a chapter to how states preserve themselves.
In the United States, the political establishment has for many years evoked democracy to legitimize its actions in the eyes of the public.
It sent the political establishment into a crisis of legitimacy.
Tens of millions of Americans sent Donald Trump to the White House in one of the biggest repudiations of the established political class in American history.
In response, instead of reflecting on why so many Americans were so fed up with them, the establishment decided to frame Trump as the root cause of all the nastiness and hostility aimed their way.
The establishment is unwilling to admit that they are the reason Trump was elected.
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