To learn more about the deep corruption on the Supreme Court, read Lisa Graves' excellent new book Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights. It is astonishing. We won't get out of this mees without unstacking the corrupt court and enacting sweeping reform.
Thank you Ginny -for the book recommendation and fully agree. Bold action will require comprehensive change and rebuilding of institutional guardrails. Democracy cannot afford the delay and obstruction of the corrupt and unethical Roberts court.
Happy new year -and hopefully many people are looking, reading, and subscribing! (Albeit, it used to be easier when you could gather actual news from a major newspaper and Walter Cronkite. :)
Excellent framing of how MAGA is just the latest rebrand of the same wealth-concentration playbook. The 2006 comparison is really apt, tho the dynamics feel accelerated this time given social media amplification and more sophisticated donor networks. What strikes me is the timing question for when GOP incumbents break, if they break at all, cause the incentive structure still heavily favors staying aligned until polling in their specific districts shifts. The historical precedent suggests a tipping point exists but predicting it feels harder when the party apparatus itself has been so thoroughly captured.
Thank you -and a very compelling insight about party apparatus. For vastly different reasons the party apparatus is a significant issue for both major parties. It manifests in the rapidly growing demographic who choose to be non-affiliated voters.
Right leaning American voters will confront the red line of atrocities and do what they have always done when such confrontations occur. Vote as a single issue, red meat driven voter. They’ll go into the voting booth, hold their noses, and vote ‘R’. Afterwards, they might remain silent or not answer a question on how they voted. Our best hope is they’ll just stay home and not vote or leave those races on their ballots empty - just like the shallow Democrats did that couldn’t vote for the black woman. One or the other might be okay, but heaven no - not combined, that’s a red line too far.
To learn more about the deep corruption on the Supreme Court, read Lisa Graves' excellent new book Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights. It is astonishing. We won't get out of this mees without unstacking the corrupt court and enacting sweeping reform.
Thank you Ginny -for the book recommendation and fully agree. Bold action will require comprehensive change and rebuilding of institutional guardrails. Democracy cannot afford the delay and obstruction of the corrupt and unethical Roberts court.
Ginny, solid recommendation on Graves' book, another one that takes Roberts and the Right to the woodshed is David Daley's "Antidemocratic".
Thanks, George, for the mention. This article may be my favorite. Great analysis!
Thank you so much. Usually my approach is concept → outline → detail → title. This article started with a title. :)
That’s a good plan always! By the way —only Blue Citizen 77 is operative, not Diane’s Blue Notes. Merged.
Got it -will adjust on civicsky.io and here.
Thanks, no worries. No one will look😂. Happy New Year to you and yours! 🥳
Happy new year -and hopefully many people are looking, reading, and subscribing! (Albeit, it used to be easier when you could gather actual news from a major newspaper and Walter Cronkite. :)
Walter Cronkite was my favorite growing up!
I meant Diane’s Blue Forum—is no more.
Excellent framing of how MAGA is just the latest rebrand of the same wealth-concentration playbook. The 2006 comparison is really apt, tho the dynamics feel accelerated this time given social media amplification and more sophisticated donor networks. What strikes me is the timing question for when GOP incumbents break, if they break at all, cause the incentive structure still heavily favors staying aligned until polling in their specific districts shifts. The historical precedent suggests a tipping point exists but predicting it feels harder when the party apparatus itself has been so thoroughly captured.
Thank you -and a very compelling insight about party apparatus. For vastly different reasons the party apparatus is a significant issue for both major parties. It manifests in the rapidly growing demographic who choose to be non-affiliated voters.
DOGE is the only thing that was not in Project 2025.
Thanks George, for putting a point on the pencil—so to speak.
We need to focus on the 2026 elections as they may be our last chance to save the country.
Thanks Bob -and deeply grateful for your advocacy and support!
Right leaning American voters will confront the red line of atrocities and do what they have always done when such confrontations occur. Vote as a single issue, red meat driven voter. They’ll go into the voting booth, hold their noses, and vote ‘R’. Afterwards, they might remain silent or not answer a question on how they voted. Our best hope is they’ll just stay home and not vote or leave those races on their ballots empty - just like the shallow Democrats did that couldn’t vote for the black woman. One or the other might be okay, but heaven no - not combined, that’s a red line too far.
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