It might be difficult to decide which is more offensive: the fact that a law school dean can be either so toweringly ignorant, or so dismissive, of Natural Rights that he can spout this drivel, the fact that the dean’s salary is tax subsidized, the fact that he can get a publishing contract to spread this curdled-cream collectivism, or that he can get such a receptive audience on the obnoxious MSNBC.
Whichever facet of this truly ugly political shadow-play one studies, it contributes to one’s understanding that many so-called “legal theorists” and politically motivated media members, as well as many of their politically powerful friends, love to promote both the canard that the U.S. government operates as “a/our democracy,” and that the U.S. Constitution is a clunky anachronism that puts said “democracy” at risk.