Alex Merz: Exactly. Saying things are awful at the moment does not mean that things cannot ever get better. History utterly falsifies that premise.

The war is over. The bad guys won.

Well, Chevron getting overruled is really bad. www.cnn.com/2024/06/28/p...

Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Supreme Court significantly weakened the power of federal agencies to approve regulations in a major decision Friday that could have sweeping implications for the environment, public health and th...

giving up entirely now is the one thing that will in fact guarantee that they win

On the other hand, the end of Chevron deference & the GOP ratfucking of the administrative state means that any future Democratic presidential victory is now only a Pyrrhic victory.

It still goddamn beats the alternative and gives us way more levers to fight with.

I agree but it means that it will suck to be a Democratic president for the foreseeable future & I worry how that will degrade the quality of candidates we get later.

It will and people pre-emptively claiming that that means "the bad guys one" will achieve nothing but making that dynamic even worse. Do literally anything else with your time and energy other than spewing self-aggrandizing doomer shit all over.

I agree with your larger point about doomerism, but you can't also be all "clap harder" when we have some very negative outcomes, as losing Chevron deference will be. As Gramsci said, "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."

I don’t think anyone here is saying anything even vaguely like “clap harder,” come on now

No, I agree with you that, all things being equal, Democrats are better for pulling the levers of the administrative state, but with the end of Chevron deference, we are going to have a lot fewer levers. I'm not trying to be doomerist. I'm just trying to have a reality-based responses.

On the other hand, if overruling Chevron is truly "not that bad," can someone please make the case for me that it isn't that bad? Because I'm very open to hearing that case.

who is saying it’s not that bad

Exactly. Saying things are awful at the moment does not mean that things cannot ever get better. History utterly falsifies that premise.

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