https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-pmo-pressed-justice-minister-to-abandon-prosecution-of-snc-lavalin/ Here's a story that perhaps illustrates the growing incoherence of liberal democracy: Canada's "national newspaper" reveals that the Justin Trudeau government, one that has made such a big deal of feminising politics and promoting ideas of reconciliation with aboriginal peoples, implying that the "first nations" are to be given more sovereignty in their "national" affairs, is revealed to have fired Canada's first aboriginal woman justice minister and Attorney General because she refused to exempt an important Quebec construction and engineering firm from a corruption prosecution. It is of course assumed in absolutist thinking that the idea that we live under "the rule of law" is a myth of liberal democracy - an idea the Trudeau government avidly promotes when the US government seeks to extradite Huawei executives from Canada for criminal prosecution in the US, thereb
It's very hard to imagine a stance like this from a POC office holder in the Democratic party in the US. She's either more independent than anything we see here or the liberals in Canada are less tightly organized. (Even taking into account that she got fired.) In a way she seems to see the paradoxical nature evidenced and obscured by liberal concepts (even if she ultimately believes in them herself.) Does Wilson-Raybould, then, exercise her own charisma of "grace"? I would just say that pursuing justice on the (admittedly highly vitiated) terms of a post-sacrificial order doesn't necessarily involve believing in the myth of the "rule of law" (even if in this case she probably does). An absolutist order would have law, and judges, and we would want them to be impartial--the difference is that we would understand that it is a moral person applying laws with an eye to their moral content, not an abstract mechanism of calculation that removes the need for judgment from individuals.