Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer, fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and wrote a manuscript titled The Dual State, explaining how the Nazis maintained a facade of normalcy while establishing a domain of lawlessness. The book reveals how a lawless dictatorship operates alongside a normative legal system, slowly eroding it. The author warns that the Trump administration is building a similar dual state, undermining key tenets of American constitutionalism to create a domain where cruel caprice, not law, rules. The danger of such a system lies in its targeted suppression, while most citizens remain unaffected until it’s too late.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/