Watch him mop the floor with Tucker on Crossfire.

I see this a lot but until you can get rid of money in politics all this policy does is shift power to lobbyists who are even less accountable, because they become the keepers of long-tenured institutional knowledge.

One side appoints Justices that voted against Citizens United and one appoints Justices that voted for it. That’s a huge distinction.

Every election since I could vote (early 2000s) has been the most important.

Why? Because the results built the Supreme Court that curtailed every progressive policy achievement and accelerated our current descent into fascism.

Without GWB you don’t have Roberts or Alito. Without Trump you don’t have Gorsuch, Cavanaugh, or Barrett.

Those fuckers have lifetime appointments. One lost election sets us back decades. The only good time for a protest vote is the primary.

You’ve missed the role of the Supreme Court in this. The Justices appointed by the Ds have been against the worst of it at pretty much every opportunity and they have lifetime appointments.

That was the real cost of Trump 1.0.

Franken should have been running for President. Smart, incisive, charismatic. Everything we needed.

Fuck.

In the US the ruling party fills lifetime judicial appointments, which means the 4 years of conservative rule can have decades of lasting impact that will thwart any progressive policies that the next leftish government tries to implement.

Working down the backlog requires investing in our judicial system, which the cons treat as growing the government and so reflexively oppose. So they’re at the heart of that problem, too.

I saw on one of the newscasts on election night that the overturning of Chevron deference is going to come back to kneecap the whole GOP agenda because they’ll have to pass all their (de)regulatory changes through Congress which will be, as you say, closed.

I recall they only had like 8 months of a super majority (if you include Manchin) before Ted Kennedy died in office and was replaced by Scott Brown.