Thread by @Gormogons

GP Interesting piece. You should read it if you'd like to know the lengths to which deranged Democrats are willing to go to destroy the constitutional order.

nytimes.com/2019/09/17/opi…

GP Since it's paywalled, I'm sure, here's what Jamelle Bouie says, basically.

Because Trump's appointed an assload of young, conservative federal judges and because both his SCOTUS appointments were illegitimate, court packing is the answer.

GP Bouie goes on:

Appointments are illegitimate because GWB and Trump didn't win a majority of the popular vote. Also because conservative jurists tend not to let Congress do whatever the heck it wants, like New Deal overreaches.

GP And on:

"The goal isn’t to make the courts a vehicle for progressive policy, but to make sure elected majorities can govern — to keep the United States a democratic republic and not a judge-ocracy."

Liar. This is *exactly* what Progressives want and you're advocating.

GP And on:

"At the same time, there are broad readings of the Constitution — ones that give our elected officials the necessary power to act and to solve problems — and narrow readings, which handcuff and restrict the range of our government."

Conservatives are wrong. See?

GP Liberals want government to do all the things for you, give you free stuff, nationalize huge chunks of the economy, dictate the food you can eat and energy you can use. And those mean old conservative judges tell us the Constitution doesn't afford the federal govt the power!

GP And on:

"Under ... Roberts, the Court has denied Medicaid coverage to ... poor people, neutered the VRA, authorized new waves of voter suppression, unleashed the power of $$$ for entrenched interests + would-be oligarchs, + opened the door to extreme partisan gerrymandering."

GP Mind you, all SCOTUS has said in any of these instances is essentially, either (1) Congress wrote an unconstitutional law and if it wants to do what it wants to do, it should rewrite the law to comply with the Constitution or (2) Congress is without power to do what it did.

GP Roberts and the four conservative justices haven't authored opinions cheering on discrimination against minorities or lauding big corporations buying Democrat politicians who then lie to their constituents about whose interests they serve.

GP And for cripes sake, stop with the Voting Rights Act horseshit. It's a lie and you know it is. SCOTUS gave Congress (IIRC) FIVE YEARS OF NOTICE that the preclearance provisions were unconstitutional and they should fix them. Congress did nothing. *Obama* did nothing.

GP And more:

"Just to even win power, Democrats will have to overcome major structural obstacles, from the Electoral College in the race for the White House to a Senate that gives disproportionate representation to the most conservative areas of the country."

GP Shorter Bouie: I don't like the results we're getting today so let's chuck the hard-fought bargain among states that's held us together for over 225 years now so we can have all the free stuff and tyranny of the majority! Screw you, Flyover rubes!

GP And in his closing:

"Roosevelt eventually came to court-packing as the solution to this problem. He was forced to abandon the plan, but it had the desired effect: The Court allowed him — and Congress — to govern. Facing similarly hostile ideologues, as well as ...

GP "... an organized effort to entrench minority rule, today’s Democrats should learn from this example."

Oh. So the court-packing FDR, the one area Americans (including Congressional Democrats) told him to f*ck off in, is your brilliant vision for today?

GP And those who defend rule of law and the Constitution as written are "hostile ideologues?" Man, do you ever need to look in the mirror. Your utter lack of self-awareness and disregard/contempt for rule of law is shocking.

GP This is what Democrats will do if they retake the White House and Senate. They are telling you they will defy the Constitution and likely plunge America into a Cold Civil War with both sides at each other's throat.

GP I'd offer this instead. How about Democrats stop trying to federalize every single gott-durned issue no matter how small and leave us the f*ck alone to lead our lives how we want to?

GP I had parents. I grew up. I most decidedly do not want a substitute "parent" telling my grown-ass, taxpaying self how I must live my life. Bouie's tantrum is a tacit admission that he doesn't either. At least when it's Republicans telling him how to live it.

GP That Democrats cannot see that of which they now complain is that which they state loudly they will do to Republicans is a damning indictment of their ability to lead.

GP It further disqualifies them from their self-proclaimed supar-smrt elite status.

GP Don't really know how to end this rant other than to say the Democrats have told you they're going to f*ck you and this country over, two times, real hard.

If you vote for a Democrat, any Democrat, in 2020, I hope you get what you voted for good and hard.