Orwell

 I've seen Orwell's writing being cited a lot, especially among those intellectual elites over at Lawyers, Guns and Money. His warnings about totalitarianism and authoritarianism feel like they could have been written at a Starbucks in Chicago or Portland. 1984 is not intended as a handbook.

I'm reminded though that Orwell's prophecies about the end of liberal democracy proved inaccurate. To quote another Englishman, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." 

I guess I struggle to reconcile my basic faith in democracy with the seeming acquiescence of so many in the Republican Party to Trump and Miller's absolute contempt for American principles. I still want to believe that we will survive this as a country, but if the SCOTUS really does gut the Voting Rights Act and locks in an extreme form of minority rule, I think we have to consider disunion. 

What's more, I wonder if maybe that's a message that Barrett, Kavanaugh and maybe Gorsuch need to hear. I think they want to be handmaidens at the wedding of plutocracy and Christianity, not pall bearers of the American Republic.