derek: Trump’s reaction to the Obama admin broke Conservatives. They were already teetering, but birtherism nonsense really played into GOP racism.

this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...

Supreme Court Rules Hitler Immune from Prosecution for Burning Down Reichstag, Seizing Absolute Powercrookedtimber.org If the current Supreme Court had held comparable office in Weimar Germany, that is, its opinion in Trump v. United States would have rendered the judgment in this post’s headline. Never mind …

I sort of wrote about this last week, but SCOTUS does seem to see Trump as a schmittian sovereign

I suppose no surprise in a fascist movement, but wild that *this guy* is their heroic ubermensch, and the crisis worthy of destroying 250 years of democracy is ... uh, some historically meager immigration and trans people drinking a beer?

it's the 2020 protests. i think they fundamentally broke conservatives.

And the Obama administration

Trump’s reaction to the Obama admin broke Conservatives. They were already teetering, but birtherism nonsense really played into GOP racism.

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