Damnit, I guess I gotta check in over the weekends more. I totally missed Ana praising JD Vance for complaining to Germany that they're too mean to their nazis. That's the good shit right there.
Let me try again. You and I are generally aligned on the view that the Dems abandoned labor-focused politics out of short-sighted political considerations that hollowed out their strength as a political party. You can point out evidence of earlier shifting toward the "center," but i think this essentially began in earnest with Clinton's election in 92. The Dems hadn't won the white house for three elections and so when Clinton won while triangulating*, Democratic leadership (with a nice push from corporate lobbyists) took the lesson that triangulation is what wins them elections. I don't know where "and used representational issues and language policing to acquire the moral license to do it" fits into this story, but it sure isn't in 1992 or 1996.
* of course, none of them ever thought to ask if triangulating actually won Clinton the election or if he was just the lucky beneficiary of the right's coalition falling apart for reasons that had nothing to do with him.
I'm not sure how you can claim that shit they only started doing in like 2014 at the earliest is responsible for 2 generations of abandonment. Dem triangulation and abandonment of the white working class long predates the BLM movement.
Fuck that. Dems constantly conceding that Republicans are right that the government is shitty is a big part of why we are where we are now. Before DOGE started taking a hatchet to it, the federal workforce had as many employees as it had in 1985. And that was because of a lot of new hires under Biden. In 2014 it was the same size it was in 1966.
70% of the government is military and veterans. What's left is woefully inadequate to manage a modern state that is as large geographically and economically as America is. And now we're firing them all.
This is one of the more advanced cases of lawyer brain I've encountered. At least outside of some law professors who've never sullied themselves with the actual practice of law and thus get all the column space they want on op ed pages to write about how actually Brett Kavanaugh would make a great justice.
It's kinda too late at that point. You really think once he starts offing people who piss him off the justices are going to be willing to stand up against him?
As to SCOTUS not ruling on hypotheticals, c'mon man. They literally rule on made-up facts when they find it convenient. It didn't matter to them one bit that the underlying factual allegations in 303 Creative were lies.