lowtax speedrun enjoyer: obama’s name wasn’t unfamiliar in 2012 since he was the president. but romney was their special little boy and the fact that they still rant - 12 years later - about how mean obama was to him tells you a lot

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.

romney losing broke them imo

I'm curious why you frame it that way. I mean, it was the same event, but from my perspective it seems like Romney losing wasn't as much the issue as the fact a Black man with an unfamiliar name, and who ran as a progressive, won.

obama’s name wasn’t unfamiliar in 2012 since he was the president. but romney was their special little boy and the fact that they still rant - 12 years later - about how mean obama was to him tells you a lot

Oh, yeah, "unfamiliar" was probably too much of a euphemism on my part. I meant that he has a name that reads as 'foreign' or 'other' for a huge segment of the US population, including those who see that as a good thing as well as those who see it as bad.

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