This really lays out the complicated history, thank you. There are so many avenues here to follow up. One thought I have is that a generation of these seditious plotters seem to be leaving the scene, from old age and maybe fatigue. I think of Falwell, Dobbs, the Sekulows, Alan Sears, James Bopp, the old foundation donors like the Scaife Foundation, even Leo himself, now far into the background.
The new Cabinet is much better consolidated than the old alliances and therefore more dangerous. I'm thinking of Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of Defense, whose military attitudes and ambitions and resentments add up to real coup potential IMO.
Donors Trust has also consolidated dark money financing outside the capacity of the law to supervise it. Alliance Defending Freedom has co-opted and demoralized the ACLU at the Supreme Court.
Congress, though, seems to have plenty of potential for disarray. So does the court system, with many thousands of still-noncompliant judges who are hard to fire. Blue States have already made some strong countermoves, like New York's adoption of an abortion protection amendment in 2024. Trump's personal appeal is transient. His age will be a factor. His successor may face an angry public.
From the longest historical perspective I can manage, I remember somebody saying the Civil War is not yet over. Maybe Trump will have time to move the Capitol to Alabama.
And Democrats will never admit our capture by social justice nonsense has discredited normal civil rights concerns and a case for the ability of government to do good things. I was warning people 15 years ago that this (eerily similar epistemologically) shit on the left would return credibility to the insane religious right and nobody would listen.
This really lays out the complicated history, thank you. There are so many avenues here to follow up. One thought I have is that a generation of these seditious plotters seem to be leaving the scene, from old age and maybe fatigue. I think of Falwell, Dobbs, the Sekulows, Alan Sears, James Bopp, the old foundation donors like the Scaife Foundation, even Leo himself, now far into the background.
The new Cabinet is much better consolidated than the old alliances and therefore more dangerous. I'm thinking of Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of Defense, whose military attitudes and ambitions and resentments add up to real coup potential IMO.
Donors Trust has also consolidated dark money financing outside the capacity of the law to supervise it. Alliance Defending Freedom has co-opted and demoralized the ACLU at the Supreme Court.
Congress, though, seems to have plenty of potential for disarray. So does the court system, with many thousands of still-noncompliant judges who are hard to fire. Blue States have already made some strong countermoves, like New York's adoption of an abortion protection amendment in 2024. Trump's personal appeal is transient. His age will be a factor. His successor may face an angry public.
From the longest historical perspective I can manage, I remember somebody saying the Civil War is not yet over. Maybe Trump will have time to move the Capitol to Alabama.
And Democrats will never admit our capture by social justice nonsense has discredited normal civil rights concerns and a case for the ability of government to do good things. I was warning people 15 years ago that this (eerily similar epistemologically) shit on the left would return credibility to the insane religious right and nobody would listen.