Christopher Armitage

Christopher Armitage is a journalist and political strategist writing The Existentialist Republic, one of the most-read independent politics publications in America, with individual pieces reaching audiences in the millions. His work has been cited by the Brookings Institution and covered by NPR, PBS, Mother Jones, and The Nation.

He is the originator of the Soft Secession framework, now in circulation among state legislators, civil rights attorneys, and organizers building real friction against federal overreach, and the architect of Oppositional Federalism. His SSRN working papers, including Sophist Originalism: The Fraud at the Heart of the Federalist Society and The Constitutional Architecture of State Opposition, are archived for researchers, legal scholars, and policymakers.

His books include Bad Cop, No Donut, Conservatism: America's Personality Disorder, and Toppling Tyrants. His work has been cited by the Brookings Institution and covered by NPR, PBS, Mother Jones, and The Nation, with appearances on the Thom Hartmann Program.

United States Air Force. Years as a sworn law enforcement officer. A Master's in Homeland Security. He writes about American institutions as someone who served inside them and watched them fail in real time.

Based in Spokane. Often somewhere else.

Read the work at TheExistentialistRepublic.com. Working papers on SSRN. Books on Amazon. Direct support at Buy Me a Coffee.

Links:

• The Existentialist Republic
• Sophist Originalism
• The Constitutional Architecture of State Opposition
• Brookings Institution
• NPR
• PBS
• Mother Jones
• The Nation
• TheExistentialistRepublic.com
• Working papers on SSRN
• Books on Amazon
• Direct support at Buy Me a Coffee