All it took was a bunch of illegitimate clerics and a sitting President who wouldn’t force their hand. The most frustrating part of the post-decision landscape is that the WH will take this beating and not go nuclear.
/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
I’m sure that the good folks returning to work this morning at the WH are living their own version of grim despair, and I keep trying to remind myself “they’re probably doing the best they feel they can,” but what an exasperated sense of fatalism over the normal politics response.
