Thread by @EricLevitz

Originalism, like “free market” economic doctrines, seems like little more than an elaborate mystification of power — a way for reactionaries to insulate their unpopular goals from democratic challenge by casting those aims as dictates foisted upon them by some distant agency...

So, *I*, a conservative ideologue in a robe am not voting to overturn a democratically enacted health reform, I’m simply carrying out The Constitution’s orders...

And *we* — elected and appointed office holders — are not choosing to funnel wealth upward through a particular set of tax, monetary and labor policies; impartial market forces are simply valorizing natural hierarchies of merit.

But “the coin don’t have no say; it’s just you.”