It really does confuse me that “just sue the government whenever it violates your rights” as a conservative alternative to passing better laws didn’t die with the decade (and counting) of harassment Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have experienced. google.com/amp/s/www.chri…
Good lawyers have been enormously important to the conservative movement, esp in beating back the excesses of progressivism. But a legal approach is fundamental insufficient as the only tool of public policy.
People will frame this as legislating morality, anti-small government, whatever. But, at its root, it’s a recognition that legislatures need to legislate, and that task can be done for reasons both good and ill. We shouldn’t ignore an entire branch of government.
But the libertarian brainworms, from the Austrian economists through Reagan’s “drown it in a bathtub” government to the modern day, have infected the conservative movement to a degree where considering this is heresy.
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