VDH with another great column.

Quote:How odd that leftists are destroying the very customs and traditions whose loss will come back to haunt them when Democrats lose the Congress in November.

Quote:Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority.

Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to achieve them.

Among the elite, the Democrats’ “blue-wall” states were once considered a testament to the wisdom of the Electoral College. When that wall crumbled in 2016 to Trump, the Electoral College suddenly was blasted as a relic of our anti-democratic founders.

The nine-person Supreme Court was once beloved. On issues like abortion, school prayer, same-sex marriage, pornography, and Miranda rights, the Left cheered the Court as it made the law and ignored legislatures and presidents.

Republican Court picks—Harry Blackmun, William Brennan, Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Lewis Powell, John Roberts, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart, and Earl Warren—would often flip leftward. How could they not be swayed by the greater brilliance of their liberal colleagues?

From affirmative action to Roe v. Wade to Obamacare, apostate Republican justices for a half-century greenlighted legislating from the bench.

In response, was there any serious right-wing talk of packing the court with six additional justices to slow down its overreaching left-wing majority—or of a mob massing at the home of a left-wing justice? Certainly not.

But now?

Suddenly a narrow constructionist majority has returned matters of abortion to the states. And the once-beloved Court is being slandered by leftist insurrectionists as illegitimate.

Every sort of once unthinkable attack on the courts is now permissible.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/29/the-c...tist-mind/

Conservatives on the court in the past valued public safety over "tradition". These new ones who had to lie to get on the court (with the possible exception of Roberts) values "tradition" over public safety. That is the difference. The last time we had such a court was before the Civil War which handed down the Dredd Scott decision based on "tradition". And it arguably resulted in the Civil War. So now, you tell me, would any student of history be anything except in fear of the ramifications of this current court?!

I should also add, that the reason I put "tradition" in quotations is because it's not real judicial tradition in the sense of precedent. But rather it's a last resort, pull something out of the ass scenario when they can't justify a decision any other way.. meaning they will go back to around the time of our founding or earlier, find some example of influential person supporting the idea, and then use that while labeling it "tradition". Doesn't matter if the source is the same source that promoted witch craft, or witch hangings.. or the fact that it was just one man's political opinion back then just like we have different opinions now.. or the fact that technology has made the morality from hundreds of years ago increasingly irrelevant.. that be damned.. they will still use this for the basis of their decisions.. but ONLY if all else fails.

Cry some more, Scorp. It's fun to watch the court put things back where they should have been. Like a toddler whose toys have been taken away, the left cries and calls the court illegitimate when rulings don't go your way.