{"id":91,"date":"2026-05-27T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:08:11","slug":"this-week-in-nation-history-government-shutdown-as-coup-detat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Government Shutdown as Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul><li>September 28, 2013<\/li><\/ul><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Government Shutdown as Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat<\/h1><h1>This Week in \u2018Nation\u2019 History: Government Shutdown as Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat<\/h1><h2><p>In a brilliant 1996 essay, political theorist Sheldon Wolin connected austerity economics to a broader Republican philosophy of governance\u2013or lack thereof.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=88\">When Christopher Hitchens Went to Hong Kong, He Saw \u2018Wised-Up Young People\u2019 on a \u2018Globalized Globe\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>September 28, 2013<\/time>\n<div>\n<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2a586b775dc1f7393ca87d287713a67e.jpg\" width=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2a586b775dc1f7393ca87d287713a67e.jpg 615w, https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2a586b775dc1f7393ca87d287713a67e-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure>\n<br\/>\n<em>The US Capitol. (Wikipedia \/ Ingfbruno)<\/em><br\/>\n\t\u2002<br\/>\n\tIt\u2019s beginning to look a lot like 1995, with Congress again bringing the country perilously close to a government shutdown. Despite the House Republicans\u2019 quixotic attempt to tie the funding of basic services to the repeal of Obamacare, Karl Rove himself calling such a tactic \u201cill-conceived,\u201d and, finally, last week\u2019s pointless exhibition of endurance by Ted Cruz\u2019s bladder, it appears the Republican Party is about to crown itself with the highly dubious distinction of having once again dragged the US government to a new low of impotence, paralysis and dysfunction.\t\t\t\t\n<p>That is not an accidental consequence of \u201cdivided government\u2026unable to settle its differences,\u201d as one reporter suggested, noting the 1995 parallel. Rather, dramatizing the supposed precariousness of public services by forcing their arbitrary cessation makes it easier for conservatives to argue that the market alone should determine the proper distribution of wealth, goods, and services in American society. There is no smaller government than none at all. As the radical political philosopher Sheldon Wolin argued in , \u201cDemocracy and the Counterrevolution,\u201d the effort \u201cto stop or reconstitute government in order to extract sweeping policy concessions amounts to an attempted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.\u201d Wolin\u2019s brilliant essay reminds us how shutdowns and austerity economics fit within the broader Republican philosophy of governance\u2014or lack thereof\u2014and how that philosophy is antithetical to the defining principle of democracy: rule by the people.\n<p>* * *\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last winter\u2019s government shutdown, contrary to media reports, was not about innocent bystanders\u2014government workers, recipients of benefits or tourists\u2014however genuine their hardships. It was about the broad scheme of power in the nation. Under what was dismissed as posturing, serious political changes were being tested. If we ask, \u201cWhat kind of authority could justify disrupting and holding an allegedly democratic system hostage in the name of \u2018a balanced budget in seven years\u2019 and then attempt to dictate the precise kind and amount of government services that are to be permitted to resume?\u201d the answer is not: \u201cThe authority of officials elected to run the government.\u201d Deliberately paralyzing an elected government is far different from the ordinary partisanship that attends appropriations.\n<p>The shutdown was, instead, a direct challenge to the principle that in a democracy the government belongs to the people. It is theirs either to reconstitute by prescribed means, such as the amending process, or to halt by resistance or disobedience if it governs tyrannically. For the President or Congress to undertake to stop or reconstitute government in order to extract sweeping policy concessions amounts to an attempted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat by what <em>The Federalist <\/em>(normally the political bible of Gingrich and other self-styled conservatives) would have condemned as a \u201ctemporary majority.\u201d\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>GLP-1s and the Limits of Knowing Better<\/span>\n\n                GLP-1s and the Limits of Knowing Better\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nGrace Ginsburg <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Trump\u2019s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering<\/span>\n\n                Trump\u2019s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJeet Heer <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>An Alternative View of What\u2019s Next After the Trump-Xi Summit<\/span>\n\n                An Alternative View of What\u2019s Next After the Trump-Xi Summit\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nJake Werner <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Aren\u2019t Billionaires People, Too? Yes, but\u2026<\/span>\n\n                Aren\u2019t Billionaires People, Too? Yes, but\u2026\n            \n<\/h3>\n<p>\nKatrina vanden Heuvel <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>Media observers suggested hopefully that the confrontation between Democratic President and Republican Congress might usefully be carried forward to November when \u201cthe people\u201d could decide whether they wanted an interventionist or a greatly reduced government. That very formulation implied yet another potentially dangerous conception: that national elections should not be primarily about choosing leaders or expressing party preferences but should serve to focus a Great Issue and force a crucial turning point. The correct name for that conception is \u201cplebiscitary democracy,\u201d and it represents an outlook that is profoundly anti-democratic. Consider what social and economic forces would frame the terms of the plebiscite, or the level of debate that would take place, or the inflated mandate that the victors would claim or the implications of such an event for reinforcing the idea of the citizen as a spectator ready to salivate at the mention of tax cuts. Unfortunately, plebiscitary democracy is not a farfetched notion but a short, highly cost-effective step from the \u201cdemocracy\u201d quadrennially produced by those who organize, finance and orchestrate elections. Given what elections have become, the effect of national plebiscites on the fundamental shape of government should give pause to anyone who cares about the prospects of democracy.\n<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *\n<blockquote>\n<p>A vote on the role of government appears in an ominous light if we recall that when the Congressional Republicans announced their determination to \u201cshut down Washington\u201d and democracy\u2019s government was nearly paralyzed, there was no mass protest, no million-citizen march on Washington, no demand to reclaim what is guaranteed by the Constitution. At a meeting of freshman Republican Representatives, someone reportedly asked, \u201cAnybody got problems back home with the fact that the government\u2019s shut down?\u201d Not a hand was raised.\n<p>The lack of response testifies to the truly terrifying pace at which depoliticization is being promoted and the depths of the alienation separating citizens from their government. Each national election serves to deepen the contempt of voters for a system that they know is corrupt, and they doubt it can be remedied by requiring lobbyists to register. Despair is rooted in powerlessness, and powerlessness is not an unintended but a calculated consequence of the system, of which cash bribes to encourage poor African-Americans of New Jersey not to vote\u2014a Republican campaign strategy in 1993 boasted about by Christine Todd Whitman\u2019s campaign manager, Ed Rollins\u2014supplied a crude instance. \u201cBalancing the budget\u201d is not simply about forcing government to live within its means \u201clike the rest of us.\u201d The projected cuts in education, social services and health care strike at the political power of ordinary Americans as well as their standard of living.\n<\/p><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=86\">Trump\u2019s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *\n<p>The complete text of Wolin\u2019s 1996 essay can be found . Subscribers to The Nation can access our fully searchable digital archive, which contains thousands of historic articles, essays and reviews, letters to the editor and editorials dating back to July 6, 1865.\n\t<\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\n                Submit a correction\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Send a letter to the editor\n            \n<\/li>\n<li>\n\n                Reprints &amp; permissions\n            \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2><i><span>Your support makes stories like this possible<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span>From illegal war on Iran to an inhumane fuel blockade of Cuba, from AI weapons to crypto corruption, this is a time of staggering chaos, cruelty, and violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unlike other publications that parrot the views of authoritarians, billionaires, and corporations, <\/span><i><span>The Nation <\/span><\/i><span>publishes stories that hold the powerful to account and center the communities too often denied a voice in the national media\u2014stories like the one you\u2019ve just read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Each day, our journalism cuts through lies and distortions, contextualizes the developments reshaping politics around the globe, and advances progressive ideas that oxygenate our movements and instigate change in the halls of power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This independent journalism is only possible with the support of our readers. If you want to see more urgent coverage like this, please donate to <\/span><i><span>The Nation<\/span><\/i><span> today.<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span> Katrina vanden Heuvel<svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of <em>The Nation<\/em>, America\u2019s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to <em>The Guardian<\/em>. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including <em>The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama<\/em>, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of <em>Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev\u2019s Reformers<\/em>.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=84\">Aren\u2019t Billionaires People, Too? 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