This is a marvelously succinct articulation of the stakes of the 2024 election. It's by @mjsdc.bsky.social and it was how he summed up the implications of the most recent SCOTUS decisions. The theater criticism about which candidate performed better on Thursday obscures these massive stakes.
Wonder if we’ll see some business backlash against this, actually. The uncertainty #SCOTUS unleashing will hurt investment, courts will not be able to handle the questions thrown at the them, both for lack of expertise and the sheer volume of cases…
Good point. I've been wondering about that too. A lack of clarity around what the rules are or how they might change makes it hard on the businesses being regulated. That said, if the entire regulatory system just gets blown up or sabotaged, then...
I think business leaders realize there's every prospect of destroying any remainder of democracy and thus any potential to regulate their activities, and what they care most about is pillaging and looting over the very short term. To the extent there is a future, it's on its own.
I think that many local large corporations behave in a way that shows they know this is destabilizing and would be bad for the economy and them. But they also tend to support more narrowly focused individual deregulations. But the enthusiastic support comes from fantastically wealthy individuals
Who are severely overconfident in their own abilities and think they will be unscathed even as the entire apparatus is torn away. This last group is the loud or quit mega-donor types. But this is just sort of the impression I get without real data
#SCOTUS are like dog that caught the car on reproductive rights, voters have rejected Dobbs every state ballot since. They and Koch Bros. may also have overplayed their hand undoing Chevron too.
(They are forgetting lesson of Marx’s “18th Brumaire”)
