Patrick Lawrence

• It is in this context we should understand the arrival of the postwar order in Germany and what befalls the Federal Republic as we speak. Germans were not made for the Cold War and its West–East binaries, destructive as these were to the remarkable release of human aspiration that followed the 1945 victories. Defeated Germany was among Washington’s pivotal clients as it turned against Moscow, so recently its ally, and set out to establish America’s global primacy. This has served Germany and Germans very badly. 

PATRICK LAWRENCE—You see this, a cynically dishonest glide over recent history, in all sorts of contexts. It is a standard resort among the liberals. Russia started the war in Ukraine, which began only in 2022: This a glow-in-the-dark example of what I mean. Chemerinsky, Goldberg, et al, and there are countless et als at this point, attempt the same damn thing, if more subtly, when they date the threat to the American judiciary to the doings of Donald Trump.