Most of the people at the very top of society - C-suiters, financiers, congresscritters, administrators, the board member class, the commentariat - are all empty vessels, devoid of any conviction other than the approval of their peers and to go along to get along.

i eagerly look forward to jeffries' and schumer's strongly worded press release

the freedom of the slave driver, unfortunately an idea as american as apple pie

Defend democratic allies, rebuild the military industrial base, prevent domestic occupations and foreign invasions of choice with this one simple trick.

I'm also a legal realist, because at the end of the day courts and the body politic will make do what they will with the law no matter how clear, but if they're going to be racist/sexist/transphobic bastards, we should make them say it out loud, and make reassertion of right that much easier.

Broad language, vague language, room for interpretation have always been the plaything of reactionary courts. Constitutions and statutes should be plain and detailed.

(I'm using conservatives broadly/psychologically here, to very much include reactionary 'centrist' elites)

The central political problem of the era is that conservatives have an insatiable compulsion to make their neuroses and insecurities everyone else's problem, and I'm really tired of it.

Millions of trans and queer folx in the US and UK have to live in fear because Lewis is a reactionary pickme

Going to be a lot of people out there over the next few years who confuse justice and rule of law with the Terror and those people must be ridiculed, loudly.

Basic enforcement of the laws on an equal basis will absolutely destroy the Republican elite (and large swaths of the wider American elite complicit in all of this) and if that seems radical to you, you're only (a) telling on yourself and (b) revealing how far we've moved from a functional society.

Congress and the People are the arbiters of the Constitution, the supreme court is a textually-mandated appellate court. That's all.

Twice actually, if we are counting the Kavanaugh stops

Agreed. There's huge potential here for blockbuster success in messaging ala 2006/Social Security, and to also use it to build support for major policy successes. But the opportunity for blah nonsense is here as well. Sigh.