"... However poorly Biden performed at that debate (and he was embarrassing), debates are theater. However ill equipped the Democratic Party is to provide an heir apparent — and they are embarrassingly unprepared for this predictable eventuality — their dysfunction is not the clear and present danger. The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity is a harbinger of not just the court’s growing power but of Democrats’ inability to mount a populist defense. This conservative bloc on the court reflects years of undemocratic political maneuvering, from Mitch McConnell stealing a seat to the political activism of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas. Their decisions are not only codifying minority interests, they are a show of strength for a Republican Party that has no intention of ever ceding power to majority will again.
"If you take your eye off the ball of democracy for any length of time, no amount of history will save you..." -- Tressie McMillan Cottom, writing in the New York effing Times about the precarious state of American democracy, and the clear and present danger posed by the Christofascist MAGAt Republican Party/ cult, its leader, and the anti- democratic Republican Supreme Court. Elections matter, part infinity.
(Image: the Christofascist MAGAt Republican Supreme Court)
