I think what's most surprising to me about the immunity decision is that I assumed the conservative justices saw trump as a liability, in the sense that they clearly have a free hand to implement an evil agenda without him. But apparently they actually really like him & welcome chaos
Like I just had a fundamental misunderstanding here, I thought only alito and thomas were the really stupid-evil ones, but I was wrong, they're all nuts
Alito and Thomas are the ones who have difficulty paying lip-service to some semblance of respectability, the other conservative judges want to still go out to diner as they wreck the country.
Yeah.
Molly knew W. She said she liked him but she didn't think he should be president. "I like lots of people I don't think should be president." 😄
Anyway, she wrote this before then, obviously. You can see that from the cover blurbs.
My take: it's the conservatism. Conservatism is feudal nostalgia; an insane-synthesis of the calvinist belief that success marks you as Elect, and the medieval catholic belief in a hierarchy of being where the powerful are ontologically closer to god. So upshot: they think theyre untouchable.
like: they think they are magic because they are "successful", that god will protect them, and so nothing bad can happen to them in life. They don't worry how Trump might use the ruling against them because they think god wont let that happen.
this is all really confusing honestly because cant they tell he doesnt even understand their objectives?
i guess i still assume a kernel of rational thinking
I think if it was two years ago, they would’ve thrown him to the dogs (not Thomas), but now he’s the Republican nominee so they can’t let him go to jail.
The SCOTUS majority is a lot closer to Marge Taylor green and Matt gaetz than the 3 Dems on the court. All of conservativism is fully on board the trump train
1. They might have seen him as a liability when he didn't seem electable. He seems electable now.
2. Alito and Thomas want to retire and be replaced by 45-year-old clones of themselves. Trump will get that done.
3. It's not chaos for them.
I would say it's less about liking him and more about how useful he is to them. They're the subject of attention and with him in frame, they fade away.
I think it’s not unlike how evangelicals claim to describe Trump, that he’s flawed personally but was sent by god to enact their agenda. I mean they say stuff like that.
This makes me even more curious as to who will be Trumps VP pick.
After all, if the 78+ year old President is indisposed, the VP will get the big chair and the Official Immunity.
There was a moment during the first impeachment when I naively thought, they have a golden opportunity to shut down the circus and have sober, reliable Pence passing all the draconian shit they love without any drama.
But Trump isn't some outlier they all secretly hate. He's exactly what they want.
The left is outraged that the decision sets the nation up for a dictatorship, but the right is excited by this possibility. They genuinely want to be ruled.
