Posted on 07/05/2022 5:46:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
It seems to be only now occurring to progressives how heavily they had leaned on the Supreme Court to act as their cat’s-paw — and how little work they have done to try not only to secure the maximum possible number of Democratic appointments to the Court but, more important, to defend and fortify the intellectual position that made those activist judges such reliable progressive policy-makers for all those decades. And it only now seems to really be becoming clear to them what they have lost by failing to defend that intellectual ground: not only the Roe regime but also much of the progressive activist thinking that made it and similar decisions possible, far-reaching regulatory power and a practically unlimited administrative state. If progressives are shocked by this — and they are shocked — it is because they made the mistake of thinking that convincing the editors of the New York Times was sufficient.
As John Steinbeck once observed, the United States “doesn’t have any self-admitted proletariat.” In some parts of the world, the Left is a genuinely working-class political coalition, but, in the United States, it isn’t: Our working classes, if you will forgive the phrase, are a good deal more socially conservative than the women-with-penises claque that wields such outsized influence within the Democratic Party and other organs of the Left. That disconnect is partly responsible for the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the political development that enabled the most recent transformation of the character of the Supreme Court.
The Left’s woundedness after Dobbs is only partly about abortion politics — it is in a much more significant way an expression of the fact that the Left thinks of the Supreme Court as its own territory.
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Signs are there but they haven’t imploded yet.
And if they lose they wont stop.
how little work they have done >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Dems? Work?
All they know how to do is posture and caterwaul using their MSM outlets. They do not deal in fact , why deal in work? They deal in hand outs , graft, kick backs using every one elses money until they run out of it.
That is why we will defeat them. Conservative Republicans work. Nancy Belicosi and all of her minions belch, fart, posture and caterwaul. They do not work.
I can hardly wait for the red tsunami. MAGA!
Paywall!
If our beloved FR needs to hear anything from this well-written piece, it’s:
“There is a despairing, defeatist strain of conservatism that insists that the Left is always winning, that the Left controls everything, that the Right is feckless, powerless, and hopeless. That is a very strange thing to insist on after watching Sam Alito rip up Roe v. Wade, seeing the so-called John Roberts Court dramatically revealed as the Clarence Thomas Court. That rightist defeatism is at odds with the political facts on the ground.”
Liberals enjoy the incessant, “wall-to-wall” focus of American media’s unambiguous (criminal) complicity. It’s a double edge sword.
I am counting on THAT fact to work against the Left….and it’s certainly done the media, itself, no good at all!
Huh! They have only owned the Court for 88 years!
The smelly old hippies are dying off.
The hippies of the ‘60s were positively conservative compared to the left today…
The left’s implosion? Kevin dreaming again. He’s such a fake.
Yeah, well it’s not like Dobbs is a minor victory, but the 78-2 Rep/Dem lose/ win ratio is nothing to celebrate.
They’re incapable of introspection. The day after the election all you’ll hear is how they failed to get their message out, how the voters are racist, etc etc. we just have to figuratively beat their brain in until something like the old Democrat Leadership Council re-emerges and … mostly… keeps the super lunatics in their cage. The maniacs are always there and having them somewhat on a leash is the best we can ever hope for from these people
Definitely won’t stop. They will become even more violent.
When they confiscate all guns, we'll be bringing knives to a gunfight <= THE BIGGEST GOAL of the devil-worshiping-democommies.
Doubt my devil worshiping description? Who else sacrifices their offspring?
I think some of these people you see at their demonstrations, particularly on abortion, are literally possessed
We do have to thank Sen. McConnell for being strong on this in the Senate. There were many points on all the federal judges where he could have gone wobbly and bipartisan, but he found his hard shell on this fight.
I think she also believed that any Obama nominees wouldn’t be Jewish.
(Why she would believe that a Hillary replacement would be Jewish is another matter.)
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