Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
Disabled Alaskan Monarchist doomer
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Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2d ago
The key insight here is that sufficiently inconsistent "rule of law" is no longer rule of law.
Not according to my Boomer Republican parents, it's not. The vast majority of the American right is never going to grasp this "key insight." "We have to follow the law; that's the only thing that separates us from our enemies, and if we do anything illegal, we'll become just like them!" they'll piously intone once again, even as they're being loaded into the boxcars and hauled off to their extermination. They say that "for the left, violence is a dial; for the right, it's a switch." That switch has long been disabled. Rusted shut. Like RoguesPhilo on Twitter points out, we've been domesticated; the fight has been bred out of us. We don't fight back — we let "these judges get away with this stuff" — for one and only one reason: we can't. The Red Tribe is constitutionally, genetically incapable of fighting back — and any narrative to the contrary is just cope; just lies we tell ourselves to avoid admitting this.
As people say, "should" implies "can." It does no good to establish the "legitimacy" of both sides exploiting a tactic that only one side can actually use. Because "FBI and Justice Department breaking multiple laws to help one side and harm the other" is something that only works in one direction.
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