#red caesar

Issei Hyoudou:

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Caesar King:

Peter Montgomery at People For The American Way's RWW:

Elon Musk’s lawless rampage through the executive branch, including indiscriminate mass firings, isn’t enough for the folks at the far-right Claremont Institute. Claremont Senior Director of Strategic Innovation Chris Ross floated a proposal last week that President Donald Trump sign an executive order forcing civil servants to take Claremont Institute training courses to “deprogram” employees from what Ross claims is “the cultish anti-Americanism that infects the Swamp.” Ross argues that the federal workforce needs “a mental reset of what constitutes good and bad behavior, and to know the corresponding rewards and punishments.” This, Ross, says, can be part of a broader “great re-learning that America needs.” Ross has a great deal of confidence in Claremont’s propaganda, arguing that its trainings would “help unify Americans and turn adversaries into friends” by “uniting Americans around a shared understanding of our country’s heritage, principles, and civic duties.”

Anyone who might be tempted to take at face value Ross’s rhetoric about “principles” and “civic duties” should think again. Journalists and scholars, including conservatives, have recognized that Claremont has gone off the rails during the Trump era, making common cause with racists, white supremacists, and opponents of democracy.  “What the hell happened to the Claremont Institute?” asked scholar Laura K. Field in a 2021 essay for The Bulwark that explored how “the once-distinguished conservative think tank plunged into Trumpism, illiberalism, and lying about the election.” Field concluded that Claremont “consistently fails to live up to a threshold level of sound judgment and civic responsibility.”  Fields cited an essay by a Claremont senior fellow that asserted, “Most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term.” Referring to people who voted for Joe Biden, he wrote, “It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”  [...]

In his proposal for forced “re-education” of federal workers by Claremont, Ross also offered a far less principled rationale, one that would undermine the Trump administration’s supposed interest in “efficiency” but would advance the Project 2025 goal of dismantling internal checks and balances. He suggested that officials could make the mandatory re-education trainings “as long as is optimal” to distract “potentially troublesome legacy employees” from their actual job responsibilities to allow newly hired MAGA loyalists—who would be exempt from the training for a year or more—to “plow ahead without interference.” Claremont is already deeply embedded in the Trump administration, Ross notes, saying that “many” alumni of Claremont fellowship programs are currently in place. For example, former fellow Russ Vought is busily achieving his goal of putting federal workers “in trauma” as head of the Office of Management. Former fellow Michael Anton, opponent of birthright citizenship and “ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners,” is now serving as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. Anton is not exactly devoted to democratic principles. The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reported that in his 2020 book “The Stakes,” Anton promoted American “Caesarism,” a “form of one-man rule halfway…between monarchy and tyranny” in which “Caesar’s word replaces constitutionalism and even, in the final analysis, law.” 

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Crossover AU Original Male AU Super AU: Vigilante

Vigilante Issei Hyoudou and Vigilante Caesar King are in the middle of catching escaped criminals, but the decide to make it a contest. Loser buys the other dinner.

It was midnight in the sleepy but dangerous city when a black-colored hummer-like was speeding down the street in haste and a pair of motorcycles was chasing after the hummer-like car

The rider of the motorcycles was Issei Hyoudou and Caesar King, a pair of expereicned and dangerous vignlate who took the law by their own hands when the law was unable or unwiling to do their jobs.

"Wanna make a bet Red Dragon~?" Caesar called her to her partner-in-crime as she glanced at Issei in the corner of her eye. "Loser has to buys the other dinner."

"Guess that mean you've to pay up for my meal then, King." Issei quipped back with a smirk.

Father Jerry Fogerty, a Jesuit priest and professor of religious history at the University of Virginia, explained to our class that the difference between Roman Law and our Constitutional Law was our Constitution is based on God-given rights. These are rights that everyone has, even children, prisoners, and non-citizens. They are "self-evident" laws that are based on natural laws of civilized people.

Roman Law granted rights only to citizens. It's how Paul the Apostle got out of a sticky legal situation in the Book of Acts in the Bible. He "appealed to Caesar," meaning that he could claim rights as a citizen of Rome. Local law was used to persecute him, but he had an escape — albeit temporary — that allowed him to continue his ministry without the local officials mistreating him.

Right wing conservatives invoking the doctrine of Red Caesar mean to supplant the Constitution with a modern version of Roman autocracy. Their version of America would make the facist excesses of Nazi Germany and Russia look like a cake walk! With modern surveillance technology and nuclear weapons, it would resemble Palpatine's Empire more than any contemporary democracy we know today.

The U.S. would have more in common with Iran, North Korea, Russia, and the rogue dictatorships of Africa than our current allies like the U.K., France, Norway, Ukraine, and India.

Jason Wilson at The Guardian:

In June, rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end. Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”. In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.

For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic in conference rooms, podcasts and the house organs of the extreme right, especially those associated with the Claremont Institute thinktank. Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy.

Their calls for a “red Caesar” are now only growing louder as Donald Trump, whose supporters attempted to violently halt the election of Joe Biden in 2020, has assumed dominant frontrunner status in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Trump, who also faces multiple criminal indictments, has spoken openly of attacking the free press in the US and having little regard for American constitutional norms should he win the White House again. The idea that the US might be redeemed by a Caesar – an authoritarian, rightwing leader – was first broached explicitly by Michael Anton, a Claremont senior fellow and Trump presidential adviser. Anton has been an influential rightwing intellectual since in 2016 penning The Flight 93 Election, a rightwing essay in which he told conservatives who were squeamish about Trump “charge the cockpit or you die”, referencing one of the hijacked flights of 9/11.

He gave Caesarism a passing mention in that essay, but developed it further in his 2020 book, The Stakes, defining it as a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”. The Guardian contacted Anton at his Claremont Institute email address, but received no response. Anton and others in the Claremont milieu are not simply hypothesizing about the future: their dreams of Caesar arise from their dark view of the US. Anton wrote the scene-setting essay in Up From Conservatism, an anthology of essays published this year and edited by the executive director of Claremont’s Center for the American Way of Life, Arthur Milikh.

Kevin Slack, a politics professor at the right-wing indoctrination factory Hillsdale College, is one of the leading advocates on the far-right for a Red Caesar to lead the nation, along with Claremont Institute's scholars.

In the past, the Claremont Institute — founded in 1979 by Barry Goldwater ally Harry V. Jaffa — was known for being a conventional conservative think tank. But in recent years, Claremont has taken a far-right hyper-MAGA turn.

Some members have promoted the idea that the United States, in order to survive, needs to leave democracy behind — and that traditional Reagan or Goldwater conservatism no longer works.

In an article published by The Guardian on October 2, journalist Jason Wilson describes the "Red Caesar" ideology that some Claremont members and MAGA Republicans are now promoting.