It’s still unclear why Justice Owen Roberts changed his votes to allow New Deal legislation to proceed, no?
04.03.2026 20:34
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It’s still unclear why Justice Owen Roberts changed his votes to allow New Deal legislation to proceed, no?
Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps
The repeated sleight of hand on jurisdiction, standing, the Question Presented, the facts found by district courts, the pacing of its decisions, the decidedly NOT BALLS & STRIKES moves that mock the integrity of the legal process itself is what has wrecked the legitimacy of the Court’s majority.
That senator who opposed the Iraq War and later became a two-term president, what’s his name?
Just going to put this here again, while we are illegally bombing a country because it is a Very Bad Authoritarian Regime.
One could, of course, also say the same thing about compliance with the JCPOA. We, not Iran, were the ones who unilaterally ended that agreement that was actually working.
Thanks. This is great.
Great 🧵 with many links to what political science research & history can tell us about FIRCs:
And she rocked Chucks on the regular.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
If I remember, Frederick Douglass lamented that the country had been seduced into "national forgetfulness” or “historical amnesia” as northerners prioritized reconciliation with the South over justice and liberty for blacks. I worry calls for unity will undermine the need for justice again.
The proposition of liberalism is dead simple: An attack on the basic rights and political equality of one group is an attack on all of us. We do not know when fascists will turn the violent arms of the state against our group, so we must treat an injury to every group as if it were against our own.
trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil
Proportional representation is a key safeguard against authoritarianism that we should adopt to help reconstruct American democracy.
Our system gives center-right voters only the binary choice of center-left vs. far-right, & many choose the latter. PR gives them a 3rd choice of center-right parties
Getting rid of presidentialism is the other one. It is the central flaw of the U.S. constitution that enables tyranny
Honestly, I'm glad they're going. They're already linked to the Trump administration after partying with Li'l Ka$h, so they might as well pay the price and be forced to suffer through two hours of Trump rambling about how amazing he is.
The Roberts Court could’ve avoided all of this if they upheld the Constitution in the first place, instead of thinking they could scrap the parts they don’t like while keeping parts they do.
These have always been the terms of the conservative elites' bargain with Trump. Do all the fascism you want, but do NOT fuck with the money.
So, the US govt approach is:
*We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump
and
*We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech
I'm of the opinion that the breakdown in American politics is at the elite level not the mass level. Low info voters behaved as they always behave. It was elected officials, business leaders, etc. that could have maintained the guardrails but did not.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
Senator Chuck Schumer conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in May 2025. Image: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images FORUM How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated. Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach With responses from → Cori Bush, Amanda Litman, Matthew Yglesias, G. Elliott Morris, Julia Serano, Eric Rauchway, Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown, Thomas Ferguson, Timothy Shenk, Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Lily Geismer, Danielle Wiggins, William A. Galston, and Henry Burke
We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
MAGA mistook caring about people for weakness, and is uncomfortable seeing that it’s strength.
I keep pointing out that Donald Trump wants us to be more like Russia. Here's another example. Putin thought the invasion of Ukraine would be easy in part because he believed the elites were the ones who wanted to draw closer to the West and that the population wanted more Russia.
What’s so misguided about the formulation “authoritarianism is here, it’s just unevenly distributed,” which I have heard from Ezra Klein and others, it’s that it misses the point: that’s true of authoritarianism *everywhere*.
What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
