First off of course, this is op piece that is in fact an interview that with one particular leftist, so not the opinion of the NYT, much less the Left as a whole.
Second it's both a bit rich and utterly typical that the guy who's proposed and backed coups when he loses insists that talking about making changes that range from 'utterly justifiable' to 'fairly well-reasoned' legally is some sort of insane woo-woo. But that's the thing--Muir is both ignorant and arrogant as regards the Constitution. It is both sacred writ that must never be changed, and ignore the fact that it has been changed, but also, window-dressing for the real Constitution that lets Muir do whatever he wants and sets all power at the county level, except when there's a Fascist running the show.
Yep. The real Constitution that only he, his fellow travelers, and zealous county sheriffs can see.
ReplyDeleteThe right’s hypocrisy pushed way beyond “breathtaking” or “palpable” years ago. I am not joking when I say that I don’t think a word exists —in English at least— to convey the sheer scale and shamelessness of it.
In the DBD crowd’s case, these are the same people who think only male landowners should vote!!!
And that’s just one tiny sample.
As for me, the past decade has radicalized me. A few years ago, I would NEVER have supported packing the Court. I would have said that’s cheating, that’s fighting dirty, and it’s unfair.
Now I do not fucking care. It is existential now. It is a matter of survival. These monsters have to be defeated.
The true Constitution of all power to the County is in play whenever a Democrat (or insufficiently fashy Republican) is in power. When their sort is in power, all local authority is to bend to its will, especially if its, say, a Democratic-voting city.
DeleteAs for court-packing, we get it pounded into our head that it's a big bad thing, except you read history and discover the Founding Fathers played silly buggers with the Court all the time, adding and subtracting seats to screw with their opponents. It was originally six seats, after all.
The back-to-back comments from Saaruuk and Henry are incredible.
ReplyDeleteSaaruuk goes into this crowd’s pet favorite spiel about how the left hates the Bill of Rights. He is typing these words 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
I do not know how these people do it. Mentally. I do not understand how they do it.
Then Henry spells out, in plain English, some of the key goals that liberals and progressives work for, and as god is my witness it will forever elude me how anyone can fully comprehend all of those and conclude “these are bad things, not good things”.
Like, I just do not get it. I cannot understand it.
The faux-toughness of people who have never had to really worry about these things, and imagine this do to some innate virtue they possess.
DeleteIt's one of the many things fascists and libertarians have in common.