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And if he succeeds in transforming America into a de facto dictatorship, he will need lawyers to staff the remaining Potemkin legal system.

The story of Watson kept growing, a Potemkin village of charm, a performance of himself as the answer to calls for diversity, with so much at stake but no real foundation, even among the people at his own company.

It is only Potemkin objectivity: empty, unconvincing, and ultimately wielded in service of something awful.

It happened because an entire Potemkin village of originalist academics, originalist law-review articles, originalist theories—chiefly funded by very contemporary oligarchs—was built up to present it as a reversion to the way things always were, as opposed to a revanchist attack on modernity itself; an attack on the common law itself and an assault on the idea of a pluralist, expansive vision of liberty.

An ice cream stand on the promenade near the Potemkin Stairs, Odesa’s most famous landmark.