The reflexivity here is key. Announcing such a policy changes the environment in which it would be applied which in turn shapes the public and elite reaction which in turn shapes whether it happens at all. This is why I suspect the actual policy design may never have been primarily about passage. It is a probe. It is an instrument in a larger campaign of informational warfare. Viewed that way the constitutional debate becomes one layer in a more complex interplay between law politics economics and human behavior. That complexity is what makes these incidents worth watching even if the proposal never gets past committee..
The reflexivity here is key. Announcing such a policy changes the environment in which it would be applied which in turn shapes the public and elite reaction which in turn shapes whether it happens at all. This is why I suspect the actual policy design may never have been primarily about passage. It is a probe. It is an instrument in a larger campaign of informational warfare. Viewed that way the constitutional debate becomes one layer in a more complex interplay between law politics economics and human behavior. That complexity is what makes these incidents worth watching even if the proposal never gets past committee..