in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project
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Mark Joseph Stern
This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!
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Trump is behaving like an authoritarian and if federal courts can't check him, it's in the hands of the populace.
At least now they are finally admitting that was always bullshit.
Trump is just the figurehead.
Pg 661 of project 2025 just calls for dissolving the fed.
You also have folks like Mike Johnson who is a Seven Mountains New Apostolic Reformationist. Christian nationalism is in the line of succession.
We're going through the motions.
Andrew Weissmann says it very clearly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd5QshSd6n0
Plus they fetishize the Trump dance
The nation that has done NOTHING SIGNIFICANT to stop an authoritarian takeover is already throwing in the towel.
The United States is *welcoming* dictatorship. My country has become repulsive.
I'm gonna do everything I can, but victory seems further away than it ever has.
The thing is, they also won’t care ever, unless and until their bottom line is affected.
[leopard licks chops]
Clearly, Nixon didn't direct those hooligans. But he benefited politically.
I would agree that Trump's relationship to political violence is of a different level, but I think it's in the same category.
https://commonslibrary.org/can-nonviolent-struggle-defeat-a-dictator-this-database-emphatically-says-yes/
And what they want is not good for any of us.
need to be recognizing DJT’s actions as the attack
That they are.
a #badfaith negotiation.