Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.
Honestly the best chance we had was in 2021 when Dems still controlled Congress - expel the legislators who voted against certifying the election from Congress, use the rump majorities to pass court reform/expansion. bsky.app/profile/mara...
That would've been an unprecedented and extreme manuever and basically a counter-coup but as I said at the time, waiting longer to take a step like that will make the remaining options to fix things shrink and grow even less appealing.
Instead of a reckoning with how bad we are screwed by the ever-tightening vice of illegitimate GOP power grabs, we just got denial, and a plan of "maybe the Dems can just pull an inside straight in every single election going forward and never lose power again" and folks, it's not going great!
Oh they probably won't actually rule that he's above the law, just delay the trial enough so it gets punted until after the election bsky.app/profile/iris...
It's true that every major victory for Republicans in my lifetime has been a complete disaster for this country but Dems winning hasn't done anything to unwind the damage, just an endless one-way ratchet of authoritarianism bsky.app/profile/rinc...
Exactly
The example I keep using is the endgame of the Peloponnesian War. Athens had to win every battle, and had a pretty good string, but Sparta needed only one, and that was it.
We can't win every election to keep the jackboots off our necks. We need to break the paradigm.
Right? My lifetime saw Reagan, Bush, Bush 2, and Trump. Huge pushes to the right and a complete overhaul of the court.
We fucking tread water when Dems are in charge. Always want to tear my hair out
Democratic fecklessness is almost as responsible as Republican authoritarianism. DC statehood being fruit hanging so low as to be on the ground is simply maddening. The Democrats genuinely seem to not want to win.
