Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, May 15, 2020

Court Battles

Just a reminder that during this pandemic, the GOP has successfully taken Wisconsin governor Evers to court to get the emergency order lifted, it's currently taking Michigan governor Whitmer to court for that same purpose and, oh yeah, they are taking the Affordable Care Act to court, too.

The message of "the GOP wants to kill you to prop up the stock market" is a compelling one, and I can see Democrats making large electoral gains this fall barring a remarkable turn of events with Covid-19 and the economy. But the GOP revanchists have a firm hold on the courts, and from that perch the Party of No can still thwart and obstruct needed change.

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