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It should be very concerning to hear Tom Cotton making threats like this. Especially considering he and JD Vance have both publicly supported Greater Good Constitutionalism, the legal theory created by Harvard law professor and their fellow elite "anti-elitist," Adrien Vermeule.
Vermeule argues all law, is meant to be interpreted by the highest authority. That's why executive authority "Trumps" judicial.
Most importantly, his theory explicitly states 🚨🚨 the constitution is not meant to uphold liberty, but to be interpreted by a modern authority in order to promote the greater good. 🚨🚨
In other words, a violation of your constitutional rights isn't necessarily a violation of the constitution, as long as an authority claims doing so is necessary for the greater good. Liberty is a necessary sacrifice for the "safety" of all Americans. Whatever an authority does, he's doing it for your own good whether you like it or not. If you refuse to see it that way, then you become a threat to America's safety.
So, where is the line drawn? Wherever the authority, who is guided by his own moral compass, determines it should be drawn.
If you're thinking, hey, that sounds an awful lot like the slippery slope that helped create Nazi Germany, it's because it's the same slippery slope rebranded for modern day America.
Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, often referred to as the "legal architect" of Nazi Germany, is one of Vermeule's greatest inspirations.
•Our Schmittian Administrative Law
•Demystifying Schmitt
•Führerprinzip (leader principal) gave Hitler totalitarian power over the ideology and policies of his political party; this form of personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism. The state itself received "political authority" from Hitler, and the Führerprinzip stipulated that only what the Führer "commands, allows, or does not allow is our conscience," with party leaders pledging "eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler."... Beginning in 1934, the German armed forces swore a "Führer Oath" to Hitler personally, not the German constitution.
•Trump says ‘own morality’ is only limit on his power: ‘I don’t need international law’