1. DOJ needs reform. It is sick with Centrist Lawyer-brain— filled with well-meaning people who are locked into bad “apolitical” process created mostly by Republicans. 2. No Fed Soc members in government. Period. Fire Wray now.
Yes. Bipartisanship with fascists is a recipe to bring in fascism.
What is called for now is partisanship. It’s ok to be partisan with the one pro-democracy party. That is, for people who are serious about keeping our democratic republic.
Why is it so hard for centrist Dems to say “No Fed Soc members in government, period” ?
Reject them, cast them out from polite society. They want more gun death, they want to deny moms and kids alike health care, and they want voter suppression.
They have bad values. #FireWray
Here it is: Centrist lawyer-brain.
Jill Wine-Banks is a well-meaning establishment member who cares about democracy. But she is shocked that the Fed Soc FBI director would protect Trump.
Centrist legal process isn’t going to save us— we are going to need to smash some norms!
Larry Tribe says it:
Garland and Monaco are well-intentioned but committed grievous democracy-destroying errors by sticking to their centrist-lawyer beliefs that process and apolitical stances are more important than fighting fascism.
Another example of centrist lawyerbrain. Brandon was one of the people on Mueller’s team content to work within the bad process rules laid out by Rosenstein and Mueller. @AWeissmann_ was fighting to follow the money, but he was overruled.
Stop following bad process.
Instead let’s follow Elie who has been saying this about Garland and Monaco for years.
There’s a tell here in how Alito ran to WSJ, and conservatives tonight have been attacking ProPublica:
The right wants all US media to be billionaire/corporate controlled.
Independent, non-profit newsrooms with pro-democracy journalists are an existential threat to the GOP.
Mark Paoletta, who’s part of the conservative legal conspiracy, with a thin, desperate attack on ProPublica here.
We need to figure out how to make many more ProPublicas, and thus crowd out Murdoch outlets like WSJ.
Let’s work to fund real independent news, because a free and independent press is kryptonite to fascist rightwing movements.
And the GOP knows it. Just look at how they clutch the Murdoch WSJ and fear ProPublica.
Paul Singer: Chairman of the Board at Manhattan Inst, donated to: Koch-network efforts, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, George Bush, Trump, Club For Growth, and it goes on.
Biggest donor to Repub Senate PAC.
Singer is absolutely at the CENTER of today’s Republican Party.
Just as David French and other Republican-allied writers jumped to Harlan Crow’s defense, let’s see which of these Manhattan Inst-paid writers come to Singer’s defense.
Josh Barro, David Frum, John McWhorter, Bill Kristol, Ed Glaeser notable on this list.
Free tip for any Dem group that wants to win in future:
Drive a wedge into Republican voters splitting Catholics and Protestants.
Modern media enables wealthy interests to create division: look at how the right tries to divide us, on left/liberal, LGB and T, etc.
Do it to them.
In fact, before about 1972, Catholics and Protestants disagreed vehemently on abortion—and they hated each other for it.
Somehow we let the Catholics and Protestants make common ground on abortion and dramatically increase their electoral power.
Reid Hoffman or similar should invest $2M, hire a PR firm to spin up both “TradCath Is the True Way” and “The Evangelical Way is Pro-choice” media outlets.
Then buy a large number of Twitter/FB troll accounts, and get the two camps sniping at each other.
It’s clear Rufo knows what’s really going on here.
Probably Roberts too — he’s very strategic about his pro-GOP agenda. His potted-plant status during the Trump impeachments and his rulings against Dems showed it off.
But my impression is that almost everyone at the top of the fascist party — Heritage staffers, Senators, economists, Alito, Barr, the mouthpieces from Thiessen to Sibarium to Noonan — they believe their own BS.
Call me old-fashioned, but if a car kills people at ten times the rate of other cars, the company covers up the data, and the CEO lies to the public and says the cars are safer…
I think that CEO should go to jail on fraud charges.
And if you’re a billionaire CEO who is doing criminal fraud in public, it makes sense to buy up media outlets to spread disinformation and try to deflect any rising public anger!!
Decades ago, we had a DOJ that actually filed criminal charges against corporate executives that did crimes.
Today, our cowed, stuck-on-bad-process DOJ merely negotiates ineffective fines with their companies.