another law prof joins a select handful that is prepared to just make stuff up to support the Trump admin’s birthright EO. None of the things in that screenshot are true.
@jimoleske.bsky.social"There's still a week to churn out op-eds tho."
Voila:
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![Mein Kampf does not afford this prospect with an ironic wink or the cynical grin attending lies that the author himself does not believe. Instead, it occurs with the grim determination of a decisionist. It is all a matter of the resolve with which one champions one's beliefs—and this bearing makes belief itself into a matter of decision. Showing oneself to be steadfast and unwavering has two sides-one that deters and another that initiates. Hitler knew well that his radicalism-separating the wheat from the chaff, in his view—had a polarizing effect, and this factored into his calculations. All the same, it did not mean that his core adherents were loyal to their leader out of conviction alone. If anything, adherents' reasons for following amounted to molded clay resting on an underlying, organizational structure that was held in place by varying degrees of willingness to show and embody resolve. Firmness of resolve—not blind obedience to ideology-constituted the primal matter connecting National Socialist actors. This unity was sufficiently strong and appealing to counterbalance centrifugal tendencies in a system that otherwise was dominated by rivalry and competition for rank. It was even compatible with silent scorn for the Führer. As research has shown, young planning experts in the National Socialist state demonstrated an "aloofly condescending relationship to Hitler, whom they certainly esteemed as a mass agitator and organizer, but did not give high marks for political think-ing."5 Such disdain did not harm the National Socialist system, however. On the contrary, the self-termed "spiri-tual" elite [die Elite der "Geistigen"] of radical, right-wing](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rg3iypb4ldcpdb4nvyplwvcg/bafkreib6f5g4wucnnuqg76ekzif2wvvye4wwnrzp5n4ndgznagrgec2td4)
![intellectuals recognized the opportunity to put its own stamp on the National Socialist movement, "given [its] weak ideological and theoretical profile." Such parties could delude themselves that they were using the Führer politically and had trumped him ideologically.59
Here, in silhouette, it becomes clear how the deficiencies in Hitler's overwrought broadsheet contributed to the historical success of National Socialism. The "heteroge-neous conglomeration" constituting the Nazi worldview managed "to give many things to many people-to satisfy the most varied instincts, needs, imaginings, and longings." Viewed from this angle, it was not the stark clarity of pronouncements so much as the indeterminacy of the program that paved the way for the NSDAP's rise from a small, sectarian group to a political party that enjoyed majority sup-port.' If National Socialist ideology operated with polemical catchphrases that were largely devoid of meaning, it appealed, by this very fact, to groups that sought to fill the empty words with intellectual content of their own devising. 61](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rg3iypb4ldcpdb4nvyplwvcg/bafkreihvjs4i6fmrtg6oduvimjeqp3uymvusnaclpbzav6mg6ouns7wkhu)