The real lesson of the Texas Obamacare ruling is that movement conservatism, by stuffing every institution it can with apparatchiks, is corroding our political system to the point of collapse 1/
The Senate no longer advises, it just consents; government agencies no longer take evidence into account, they just reflect political prejudices; state secretaries of state are in the election-rigging business. 2/
And a very large part of our judiciary now consists of political loyalists who don't care at all about precedent or legal validity, treating their positions as an opportunity to exercise power on behalf of their party 3/
Nancy Pelosi says that we're witnessing a "monstrous endgame" on healthcare; she's right, but we're probably going to see a monstrous endgame on everything -- very much including democracy itself 4/
