Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this bonus episode, and all of our bonus content: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy">https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy</a>KYE super guest <a href="https://johnganz.substack.com/" target="_blank">John Ganz</a> joins Matt and Sam for a characteristically spirited discussion of The Claremont Institute's "Sheriff Fellowship," which invites county sheriffs from across the country to California for a weekend of West Coast Straussian ideological programing. Drawing on the history of "<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/posse-comitatus" target="_blank">posse comitatus</a>" movements and recent reports on the role of conservative sheriffs in resisting COVID mandates, propagating 2020 election lies, and cozying up to vigilante militias, we offer a synthesized account of why the mythologized figure of the sheriff — and sheriffs themselves — have such an attraction for right-wing radicals intent on subverting American democracy.Further Reading:Jessica Pishko, "<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/claremont-institute-secret-sheriff-fellowship-curriculum-revealed.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist" target="_blank">Here’s the Secret “Sheriff Fellowship” Curriculum From the Country’s Most Prominent MAGA Think Tank,</a>" Slate, Sept 21, 2022.Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/politics/election-sheriffs-voting-trump.html" target="_blank">2020 Election Deniers Seek Out Powerful Allies: County Sheriffs</a>," NYTimes, Jul 25, 2022.Adam Rawnsley, "<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-claremont-institute-honors-sheriffs-who-defy-laws-they-dont-like" target="_blank">MAGA Claremont Institute Honors Sheriffs Who Defy Laws They Don’t Like</a>," Daily Beast, Nov 22, 2021.Ashley Powers, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/the-renegade-sheriffs" target="_blank">The Renegade Sheriffs</a>," The New Yorker, Apr 23, 2018. Kimberly Kindy, "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/constitutional-sheriffs-elections-trump-pandemic/2021/11/01/4c14c764-368b-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html" target="_blank">Boosted by the pandemic, ‘constitutional sheriffs’ are a political force</a>," Washington Post, Nov 2, 2021.Christian Vanderbrouk, "<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/notes-on-an-authoritarian-conspiracy-inside-the-claremont-institutes-79-days-to-inauguration-report/" target="_blank">Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute’s “79 Days to Inauguration” Report</a>," The Bulwark, Nov 8, 2021. Michael Anton & Glenn Elmers, "<a href="https://americanmind.org/audio/the-stakes-harry-jaffas-philosophy/" target="_blank">The Stakes: Harry Jaffa’s Philosophy,</a>" The American Mind, Sept 19, 2022.

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