Thank you for this. I was looking for someone to put this together this way all day yesterday, after the ruling came down. It’s the bow on closing down everything. Corruption and takeover, pure and simple. But most importantly, it’s clear they don’t care about masking the corruption, anymore. All that “Is Cannon too inexperienced, too stupid or in the bag for Trump?” is gone. I feel as though they’re all in a quarter-million-dollar RV cackling away at how naive “those Libs” are.
It will end badly. That’s a given. Democrats don’t have the strength or stomach to confront this minority power grab until societal conditions become intolerable. Then there will be a cleansing and bloody reckoning.
There something deeply wrong with people who kneejerk attack the Democrats for vile actions perpetrated by others. As laid out in this article, these outcomes are due to systemic calculated behaviors by an extremely wealthy and powerful strata in our perverted capitalistic society. It has nothing to do with "Democrats".
Couldn't have said it better, Ian. For decades, the house has been on fire, and Dems have been out in the back yard, playing croquet. Alarm after alarm has been raised, but the Dems don't ever even think of a counterattack until it's waaayyyy.too late.
Dems aren't superheroes. You would not be able to counter it either. Who even are "the Democrats"? This group noun is just a vague target for people missing the point to blame.
I agree with your essay, of couse, but I question how collectively we can impact the courts.
Voting for judges locally is critical, and a Democratic president will appoint hundreds of federal judges, but without Democratic leadership who have the political will to abolish the filibuster to preserve civil rights and pass SCOTUS reforms, what can voters do?
You question whether there is anything we can do, and then in the next breath you attack Democratic leadership for lacking political will to abolish the filibuster ... What exactly was Democratic leadership supposed to do when they only had fifty Senate members and at least two of those were barely Democratic (and no longer are) centrists who were strong opponents of ending the filibuster? This foolish and immature practice of attacking the best allies you have is extremely destructive and self- contradictory. It's similar to all these people deathly afraid of Trump winning--as they should be--constantly undermining in the worst ways possible the Dem candidate who is the only feasible person who can prevent Trump from winning. (Every party in history that has bypassed its incumbent has lost, and they switched before July.)
Critics on this thread identify the ineptitude of our Democratic leadership. Biden has governed well. But the Dem power base has no idea how to campaign, how to consolidate power, or how to stay in power. That RBG was permitted to stay on the bench throughout a protracted terminal illness was madness. That the Dems haven’t held a majority on the Supreme Court, since the 1969 retirement of Chief Justice Earl Warren, is pathetic. That Obama didn’t push to nominate Biden in 2016 (and thrust an unpopular baggage-ladened Hillary Clinton on the electorate) was calamitous. That the Dems cannot eradicate gerrymandering and voter “integrity” is nothing short of a joke.
If you think my critique of the Democratic Party and it’s leaders is counter-productive, listen to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse articulate his brutal indictment of the Dems passive complacency (cf Marc Elias: Democracy Docket - How We Fix the Corrupted Supreme Court)
Democratic leadership has had 3.5 years to educatie the public about the need for Court reform and abolishing the filibuster to protect civil rights. Then you can move quickly when you do have the votes.
Durbin ran out the clock on SCOTUS accountability to push through more judges, but if SCOTUS keeps destroying rights, what role will those judges play.
Biden is struggling in the polls. 20% of Americans blame Biden for Dobbs. Pointing out reality won't change the results of this election.
You've offered no solutions, just ad hominem attacks, so there's no point in further discussion.
This handwaving doesn't address my points and is deeply intellectually dishonest and hypocritical--what solutions have you offered? None, you just play the blame game with dubious claims and ignore the immense political and financial power of the right wing which has been positioning itself ever since FDR -- Elon Musk is now pledging to spend $45 million / month to get Trump elected. And there was no ad hominem in my comment ... that's a flat-out lie. A general criticism that you might fall under is not an ad hominem ... ad hominem is a fallacy of irrelevance, and I said nothing irrelevant about anyone.
Where does the case for Blue State Secession stand right now? Desperate times call for desperate measures. It needn't be a full break - Blue and Red could have a mutual defense pact and free trade between them. I am deadly serious. The impossibility of removing the undemocratic elements of the U.S. Constitution is more apparent than ever. I'm 78 years old and I've seen that ever since Reagan this country has been on a slow slide toward plutocracy. Peter Turchin, for one, says we already HAVE a plutocracy. I'm so tired of fighting what looks to be in the long run a losing war. If I were 50 years younger and knew what was coming I'd might well have emigrated. Labour just won in the UK and Marie le Pen was repudiated in France. (And France has the world's greatest annual sporting event - the Tour de France. ) I do have to kick myself for not getting involved in politics until Bush v Gore - too late!?
The downside is that the Blue states have most of the money but the Red states have most of the guns. The latter situation could be corrected - not with a 2nd Amendment type free-for-all but with "well-regulated militias."
Blue states are not majority blue at least out here in the West. I don't see that as a viable solution, just a dream. And do you think that White Christian leadership would allow the resources of blue states to get away. No.
“And that’s the rest of the story.” Epic. Thank you very much, this needs to show up in every mailbox and news feed in America. I have started to distribute it and hope others do as well.
Same here as hw below. One feels a tsunami wave of Christian Right at our feet; how to stop it all? Not simply by avoiding msm. Nor do I feel writing post cards and even knocking on doors will help. Plus Biden needs to step away. Nothing seems plausible or effective. I always thought this would happen as the country began to turn to a color other than white majority, but how truly awful the new effort to fight back that good change now is.
To the general public, Judges are *supposed* to be non partisan in word and action. Does this explain why there does not seem be a lot of pushback toward Judge Cannon by her colleagues?
Has my question entered the territory of legal ethics? Is there any timely recourse?
Thank you for this. I was looking for someone to put this together this way all day yesterday, after the ruling came down. It’s the bow on closing down everything. Corruption and takeover, pure and simple. But most importantly, it’s clear they don’t care about masking the corruption, anymore. All that “Is Cannon too inexperienced, too stupid or in the bag for Trump?” is gone. I feel as though they’re all in a quarter-million-dollar RV cackling away at how naive “those Libs” are.
Thanks!
It will end badly. That’s a given. Democrats don’t have the strength or stomach to confront this minority power grab until societal conditions become intolerable. Then there will be a cleansing and bloody reckoning.
There something deeply wrong with people who kneejerk attack the Democrats for vile actions perpetrated by others. As laid out in this article, these outcomes are due to systemic calculated behaviors by an extremely wealthy and powerful strata in our perverted capitalistic society. It has nothing to do with "Democrats".
It has everything to do with the Democrats chronic inability to counter the monstrous strategems of the rogue GOP oligarchy.
Couldn't have said it better, Ian. For decades, the house has been on fire, and Dems have been out in the back yard, playing croquet. Alarm after alarm has been raised, but the Dems don't ever even think of a counterattack until it's waaayyyy.too late.
Dems aren't superheroes. You would not be able to counter it either. Who even are "the Democrats"? This group noun is just a vague target for people missing the point to blame.
I agree with your essay, of couse, but I question how collectively we can impact the courts.
Voting for judges locally is critical, and a Democratic president will appoint hundreds of federal judges, but without Democratic leadership who have the political will to abolish the filibuster to preserve civil rights and pass SCOTUS reforms, what can voters do?
You question whether there is anything we can do, and then in the next breath you attack Democratic leadership for lacking political will to abolish the filibuster ... What exactly was Democratic leadership supposed to do when they only had fifty Senate members and at least two of those were barely Democratic (and no longer are) centrists who were strong opponents of ending the filibuster? This foolish and immature practice of attacking the best allies you have is extremely destructive and self- contradictory. It's similar to all these people deathly afraid of Trump winning--as they should be--constantly undermining in the worst ways possible the Dem candidate who is the only feasible person who can prevent Trump from winning. (Every party in history that has bypassed its incumbent has lost, and they switched before July.)
Critics on this thread identify the ineptitude of our Democratic leadership. Biden has governed well. But the Dem power base has no idea how to campaign, how to consolidate power, or how to stay in power. That RBG was permitted to stay on the bench throughout a protracted terminal illness was madness. That the Dems haven’t held a majority on the Supreme Court, since the 1969 retirement of Chief Justice Earl Warren, is pathetic. That Obama didn’t push to nominate Biden in 2016 (and thrust an unpopular baggage-ladened Hillary Clinton on the electorate) was calamitous. That the Dems cannot eradicate gerrymandering and voter “integrity” is nothing short of a joke.
This doesn't address my points and is deeply intellectually dishonest.
If you think my critique of the Democratic Party and it’s leaders is counter-productive, listen to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse articulate his brutal indictment of the Dems passive complacency (cf Marc Elias: Democracy Docket - How We Fix the Corrupted Supreme Court)
Democratic leadership has had 3.5 years to educatie the public about the need for Court reform and abolishing the filibuster to protect civil rights. Then you can move quickly when you do have the votes.
Durbin ran out the clock on SCOTUS accountability to push through more judges, but if SCOTUS keeps destroying rights, what role will those judges play.
Biden is struggling in the polls. 20% of Americans blame Biden for Dobbs. Pointing out reality won't change the results of this election.
You've offered no solutions, just ad hominem attacks, so there's no point in further discussion.
This handwaving doesn't address my points and is deeply intellectually dishonest and hypocritical--what solutions have you offered? None, you just play the blame game with dubious claims and ignore the immense political and financial power of the right wing which has been positioning itself ever since FDR -- Elon Musk is now pledging to spend $45 million / month to get Trump elected. And there was no ad hominem in my comment ... that's a flat-out lie. A general criticism that you might fall under is not an ad hominem ... ad hominem is a fallacy of irrelevance, and I said nothing irrelevant about anyone.
Where does the case for Blue State Secession stand right now? Desperate times call for desperate measures. It needn't be a full break - Blue and Red could have a mutual defense pact and free trade between them. I am deadly serious. The impossibility of removing the undemocratic elements of the U.S. Constitution is more apparent than ever. I'm 78 years old and I've seen that ever since Reagan this country has been on a slow slide toward plutocracy. Peter Turchin, for one, says we already HAVE a plutocracy. I'm so tired of fighting what looks to be in the long run a losing war. If I were 50 years younger and knew what was coming I'd might well have emigrated. Labour just won in the UK and Marie le Pen was repudiated in France. (And France has the world's greatest annual sporting event - the Tour de France. ) I do have to kick myself for not getting involved in politics until Bush v Gore - too late!?
The downside is that the Blue states have most of the money but the Red states have most of the guns. The latter situation could be corrected - not with a 2nd Amendment type free-for-all but with "well-regulated militias."
Blue states are not majority blue at least out here in the West. I don't see that as a viable solution, just a dream. And do you think that White Christian leadership would allow the resources of blue states to get away. No.
“And that’s the rest of the story.” Epic. Thank you very much, this needs to show up in every mailbox and news feed in America. I have started to distribute it and hope others do as well.
Same here as hw below. One feels a tsunami wave of Christian Right at our feet; how to stop it all? Not simply by avoiding msm. Nor do I feel writing post cards and even knocking on doors will help. Plus Biden needs to step away. Nothing seems plausible or effective. I always thought this would happen as the country began to turn to a color other than white majority, but how truly awful the new effort to fight back that good change now is.
Excellent piece, Mike. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, Ed
Okay, I laughed out loud at the head/sub.
Thanks, Natalie!
Yep, Hillary was right about everything, including the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Thank you for fleshing out the coup.
To the general public, Judges are *supposed* to be non partisan in word and action. Does this explain why there does not seem be a lot of pushback toward Judge Cannon by her colleagues?
Has my question entered the territory of legal ethics? Is there any timely recourse?