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Aaron's activity on August 31 centered on two interconnected themes: the structural crisis of American democratic accountability and the economic self-destruction being wrought by Trump's political project.

On the constitutional front, Aaron engaged with legal scholar Josh Chafetz's argument that Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have effectively collapsed democratic accountability into the presidency alone — a dynamic reinforced by the Court's own precedents, particularly INS v. Chadha, which Chafetz argues has contributed to a supine Congress ill-equipped to resist authoritarian executive overreach. Aaron reposted both Chafetz's original observation and Kathleen Clark's highlighting of the same argument, and the academic paper underlying it is available on SSRN.

On the economic side, Aaron reposted an observation from @legalminimum.bsky.social that Trump is dismantling the international order that made large multinationals viable in the first place — and that corporate executives supporting him are undermining their own companies' long-term prospects. He also expressed hope that Democratic Party donors are paying attention to Liberal Currents, suggesting he sees that publication as offering strategic insight worth amplifying in those circles.