The Dual State: How Trump Is Using Ernst Fraenkel’s Playbook to Fracture the Law

Donald Trump has created a space in America where the law is no more than the armed weaponization of his desires.

Edwin Eisendrath is the former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Alderman who hosts It's The Democracy Stupid on Lincoln Square and a weekly radio show on WCPT820AM/ Heartland Signal. Subscribe to his Substack.

Let me tell you about Ernst Fraenkel. Born in 1898 in Germany, Fraenkel grew up a proud German. He fought for the Kaiser in World War I. H…