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Jonathan
Turley
says
the
darnedest
things.
He
fully
embraced
the
“hot
take”
economy,
mortgaging
his
credibility
as
a
law
professor
to
parrot
whatever
half-baked
talking
points
might
earn
him
a
5-minute
hit
as
a
cable
news
talking
head
for
the
night.
Election
law
attorney
Marc
Elias
dubbed
Turley
“Mike
Lindell
with
tenure,”
which
is
funny,
but
always
seemed
a
tad
unfair.
Turley’s
takes
oscillate
between
ragebait
cynicism
and
comical
dullardry.
Even
his
most
conspiratorial
takes
—
like
swallowing
hook,
line,
and
sinker
the
wingnut
theories
about
Hunter
Biden’s
laptop
—
carried
a
faux
intellectual
energy,
that
separated
him
from
the
frothing
conspiracy
theory
vibe
that
the
MyPillow
guy
brings
to
everything.
But
that
tenuous
grip
on
reality
seems
to
be
slipping,
as
the
professor
delivers
his
contrarian
love
letter
to
the
recently
deposed
Viktor
Orban.
Sure,
Orban
had
ties
to
Putin
and
a
reputation
for
“authoritarianism
and
corruption,”
Turley
concedes,
but
the
Hungarian
prime
minister
formed
the
last
firewall
against
“global
governance,”
a
term
Turley
invokes
with
all
the
tin
foil,
black
helicopter
baggage
you’d
expect
from
Alex
Jones,
not
a
GW
Law
professor.
Maybe
he
really
is
as
cooked
as
Lindell.
The
defeat
of
Viktor
Orban
in
Hungary
last
weekend
was
celebrated
by
many
who
saw
the
former
president
as
establishing
single-party
rule
in
his
central
European
nation.
The
irony
is
that
this
claimed
victory
for
democracy
may
fuel
the
establishment
of
a
global
governance
system
that
is
neither
democratic
nor
accountable
to
citizens.
Orban
was
the
prime
minister,
not
the
president.
Turley
is
no
stranger
to
publishing
articles
with
basic
factual
errors.
He
once
penned
a
New
York
Post
article
accusing
Joe
Biden
of
abusing
his
office
as
Vice
President…
in
2018.
But
kudos
to
Turley
for
properly
setting
the
audience’s
expectations
for
the
intellectual
rigor
to
follow.
However,
the
unintended
consequence
of
this
election
could
be
the removal
of
a
single
autocrat
in
favor
of
a
global
bureaucracy.
Now
by
“global,”
Turley
means
the
European
Union.
If
you’re
a
student
of
the
English
language,
you’ve
probably
clocked
that
Europe
is
not
“the
globe,”
and
a
regional
intergovernmental
body
regulating
member
nations
in
Europe
is
very
specifically
not
a
global
bureaucracy.
In
“Rage
and
the
Republic,”
I
discuss
the
dangers
posed
to
the
American
republic
this
century
by
the
rise
of
global
governance
systems
like
the
EU.
The
book
explores
how
globalists
planned
to
gradually
get
nations
to
yield
their
authority
to
the
EU
—
destroying
national
identity
and
sovereignty
in
favor
of
an
EU
bureaucracy
in
Brussels.
He’s
citing
his
book
about
America’s
founding
without
a
hint
of
irony.
The
path
the
United
States
took
to
becoming
a
world
superpower
was
charted
by
“destroying
state
identity
and
sovereignty
in
favor
of
a
federal
bureaucracy
in
Washington.”
The
EU
isn’t
a
globalist
government,
it’s
an
attempt
to
turn
the
historically
fractured
continent
into
a
modern
economic
power
by
borrowing
the
same
federalist
principles
that
made
America
successful.
As
the
EU
moves
to
kill
off
national
sovereignty,
EU
commissioners
are
calling
for
a
single
European
military
command,
completing
a
longstanding
globalist
goal.
Like
the
Holy
Roman
Empire,
this
is
neither
longstanding,
nor
globalist,
nor
a
goal.
To
the
extent
Europe
is
flirting
with
military
coordination,
it’s
a
recent
development
brought
on
by
the
Dementia-Patient-in-Chief
that
Turley
has
spent
the
last
decade
fluffling.
That’s
the
guy
who
publicly
threatens
to
cut
off
Europe’s
military
support,
abandon
the
continent
to
Russian
imperialism,
and
—
and,
this
is
a
real
sentence
one
has
to
type
in
the
year
2026
—
invade
Greenland.
Europe
never
needed
a
single
military
command
because
NATO
worked.
Cause,
meet
effect.
The
250th
anniversary
of
our
republic
is
occurring
as
we
face
an
unprecedented
EU
threat.
Our
revolution
was
fought
against
a
foreign
empire.
It
now
faces
an
even
greater
threat
from
a
global
government
asserting
the
right
to
compel
American
companies
to
censor
Americans
and
comply
with
environmental,
social
and
governance
or
ESG
policies.
ESG
policies
pose
“an
even
greater
threat”
to
America
than
the
British
Empire.
This
is
not
a
serious
person.
Newsflash
about
this
terrifying
“global”
threat:
American
companies
don’t
have
to
do
business
in
Europe!
If
Meta
and
X
or
any
of
the
other
persecuted
trillion-dollar
companies
don’t
want
to
comply
with
European
rules
while
operating
inside
Europe,
they
are
free
to
not
operate
inside
Europe.
That
is
how
sovereignty
—
the
thing
Turley
claims
he’s
worried
about
—
actually
works.
You
can’t
simultaneously
argue
that
sovereign
nations
shouldn’t
have
to
follow
EU
rules
and
that
sovereign
European
nations
shouldn’t
be
allowed
to
make
rules
for
the
companies
doing
business
within
their
borders.
Pick
a
lane,
bro.
The
EU
has
worked
very
hard
to
dismantle
national
sovereignty
and
identity
in
its
member
states.
Historically,
such
collapses
have
been
followed
by
different
forms
of
tyranny.
Well,
we’re
at
250
years
and
running.
Turley’s
thirsty
quest
for
attention
has
long
centered
on
the
Fox
News,
NY
Post,
and
The
Hill
axis
of
conservative
politics,
where
he
postures
as
a
“Democrat”
who
happens
to
validate
Republican
talking
points
by
wholly
agreeing
with
them.
It’s
a
right-wing
audience,
but
not
really
a
QAnon
audience.
But
this
“global
governance”
kick
—
he
uses
some
version
of
“global”
10
times
in
this
piece
—
is
chemtrails
and
one-world
government
stuff.
So
the
question
is:
has
Turley
gone
full
loon
or
has
the
Fox
audience
become
so
indistinguishable
from
Infowars
(pre-Onion)
that
Turley
has
just
accepted
that
this
is
now
price
he
has
to
pay
to
keep
in
that
spotlight?
Post-Orban,
the
EU
poses
an
even
greater
threat
to
US
sovereignty
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