Emmanuel Malion

So the connection, as I studied in particular when I was with Liza at the Brennan Center

with our colleague Mike German is this deep and longstanding history and connection between white nationalists and law enforcement.

Like Liza, I think, you know, clearly it shows the incredibly capricious nature on which we're supposedly running our foreign policy today.

But I see really clear through lines, I think, from what is happening beyond our border to what's happening outside.

within Minneapolis, right?

And so we have this flexing of power.

We have this daring of both the world and also the states and also of Congress to say, okay, I'm going to assert that I have this authority and I'm going to ask who's going to stop me.

You know, in many ways, I see that as the overriding message between not only what's happening in Greenland, but also Venezuela,

and also that's happening on the interior of our country.

One of the other things that I think we see, and this is where I think of this as a moment of continuity, is that we've seen really since 9-11, each successive administration, both Republican and Democrat, continue to incrementally ratchet up

And push against the separation of powers question, as Liza has said.

So I think that what we're seeing is what happens when our constitutional system, our separation of powers, our different branches of government abdicate their authority and abdicate their responsibility to reform.

rein in the executive.

And so one of the things that I see that's occurring both on the international stage, but at home too, is that this power imbalance is not being met with people rolling over.

I think that what we see when our government withdraws protection from some while preserving it from others is that

our ideas of security and our expectations of security don't disappear.

Uh, they just reorganize.

And so locally we're seeing it reorganize, um, on, uh, an interpersonal level where neighbors are taking care of each other, where, um, where we are understanding that we are responsible for our own security when the gut, when we can't trust the government, uh, to secure us.

And on the international stage, we see, uh, the same sort of reorganization, uh, as well.

We see our, uh,