A truly convincing argument. The only thing to be added is that , to mix historical comparisons, without experiencing the Ukranian essence of Existential Threat, how can a once smug and secure democracy resort to the self abnegation of a nightly " thousand bomber raid".
Please excuse the tortuous analogies , but where are your Murican heroes now!
Here on Substack, Judge Luttig has a 'Bill of Particulars' re Trump's actions modeled on that in the Declaration of Indepedence. It's convincing enough to present the question, 'If then, why not now?'
Not now, because there remains the strong likelihood that electoral politics is going to work, and that giving MAGA a Reichstag Fire would be a political mistake (h/t Talleyrand). MAGA is so hungry for just that they're pretendiing, insisting, Kirk's murder is it. It's not actually playing. Always, always, remember, how tuned out so many still are. Some now are tuning in, after Kimmel was so abruptly forced off the air. Others won't until the economy really starts to fail, which a majority already rightly expect. Hospitals and nursing homes have already begun to close, a wave of farm bankruptcies is in the offing, an AI crash seems inevitable. Trump's fascist performance pieces are not popular, and many have been abandoned. "Chicago!" is now "Memphis!", maybe.
Which brings us to the Court. They have earned whatever fate that may befall them, however "uncivil". But we still don't know how they are going to deal with Trump (they may not yet know themselves). They have not found for Trump, they have stayed lower court injunctions, giving him his head-for now. Thus, they are witholding full legal sanction. The IEEPA case, as you say, will be decisive. If the Court rules against Trump, and ir sticks, it will shift power decisively from him to them. I suspect that is just what they, and the reactionary capitalists on whose behalf they were put on the bench, want. None other than Leonard Leo is behind one of the lawsuits challenging Trump's usurpation of tariff authority.
To return to electoral politics,, prospects for the Democrats look, if anything, promising. Are they ready to fully exploit their chances? Not yet, by a long shot. Their chief problem isn't quotas at the DNC itself, it's what that displaces. "If we broke up the banks, would that end racism? Would that end sexism?" That was Hiliary Clinton, during the 2016 campaign. That's their problem, that dodge, the current head of the DNC talking about "good" vs. "bad" billionaires. We see it in the extreme reluctance of NY Deomocrats to endorse Mamdani, at a time when popular anger at the corporate elite is so high and widespread that Luigi Mangione is a folk hero. I have seen a large mural on Canal St in NYC portraying him as a Catholic saint!
In fact, "Bidenomics" WAS an answer to our dilemmas, since it was an attempt, critically sabotaged by two corporate Democrats in particular, to restore the New Deal. You know, that program which overcame Depression and Fascism back in the day.
Back to the Court, since the Anderson decision, I've been ready to see the whole lot of them run out of town on a rail. I'm willing to settle for figuratively, but Democrats need to prepare for just that, and execute it ruthlessly.
Btw, once Biden expressed support for Court reform, they were going to find for Trump in the Anderson and immunity cases to protect themselves (the liberals siding with Trump in Anderson is indeed a signal example of liberal weakness of exactly the type you decry).
A truly convincing argument. The only thing to be added is that , to mix historical comparisons, without experiencing the Ukranian essence of Existential Threat, how can a once smug and secure democracy resort to the self abnegation of a nightly " thousand bomber raid".
Please excuse the tortuous analogies , but where are your Murican heroes now!
Even if it is not a false assumption, who cares if "history will not be kind to..."
If you were one of the many thousands of Mahommedan Turks impaled on a slow agonising death pole by nasty Vlad
If you were one of the gassed and burned millions
If you were one of the hundreds of millions persecuted by ongoing Trumpian/Republican fascism for THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS
ACT NOW!
“Freedom, oh, freedom’s not for every man” - James “Blood” Ulmer - I Belong in the U.S.A.
Here on Substack, Judge Luttig has a 'Bill of Particulars' re Trump's actions modeled on that in the Declaration of Indepedence. It's convincing enough to present the question, 'If then, why not now?'
Not now, because there remains the strong likelihood that electoral politics is going to work, and that giving MAGA a Reichstag Fire would be a political mistake (h/t Talleyrand). MAGA is so hungry for just that they're pretendiing, insisting, Kirk's murder is it. It's not actually playing. Always, always, remember, how tuned out so many still are. Some now are tuning in, after Kimmel was so abruptly forced off the air. Others won't until the economy really starts to fail, which a majority already rightly expect. Hospitals and nursing homes have already begun to close, a wave of farm bankruptcies is in the offing, an AI crash seems inevitable. Trump's fascist performance pieces are not popular, and many have been abandoned. "Chicago!" is now "Memphis!", maybe.
Which brings us to the Court. They have earned whatever fate that may befall them, however "uncivil". But we still don't know how they are going to deal with Trump (they may not yet know themselves). They have not found for Trump, they have stayed lower court injunctions, giving him his head-for now. Thus, they are witholding full legal sanction. The IEEPA case, as you say, will be decisive. If the Court rules against Trump, and ir sticks, it will shift power decisively from him to them. I suspect that is just what they, and the reactionary capitalists on whose behalf they were put on the bench, want. None other than Leonard Leo is behind one of the lawsuits challenging Trump's usurpation of tariff authority.
To return to electoral politics,, prospects for the Democrats look, if anything, promising. Are they ready to fully exploit their chances? Not yet, by a long shot. Their chief problem isn't quotas at the DNC itself, it's what that displaces. "If we broke up the banks, would that end racism? Would that end sexism?" That was Hiliary Clinton, during the 2016 campaign. That's their problem, that dodge, the current head of the DNC talking about "good" vs. "bad" billionaires. We see it in the extreme reluctance of NY Deomocrats to endorse Mamdani, at a time when popular anger at the corporate elite is so high and widespread that Luigi Mangione is a folk hero. I have seen a large mural on Canal St in NYC portraying him as a Catholic saint!
In fact, "Bidenomics" WAS an answer to our dilemmas, since it was an attempt, critically sabotaged by two corporate Democrats in particular, to restore the New Deal. You know, that program which overcame Depression and Fascism back in the day.
Back to the Court, since the Anderson decision, I've been ready to see the whole lot of them run out of town on a rail. I'm willing to settle for figuratively, but Democrats need to prepare for just that, and execute it ruthlessly.
Btw, once Biden expressed support for Court reform, they were going to find for Trump in the Anderson and immunity cases to protect themselves (the liberals siding with Trump in Anderson is indeed a signal example of liberal weakness of exactly the type you decry).