"What we now consider stupid and dangerous ideas of the past, progressives see as useful in the present.
Even liberal historians usually label as disastrous two decisions by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration:
The latter was a crazy scheme to remake the Supreme Court, given that Roosevelt wanted no more judicial interference in the implementation of the New Deal...
...The embarrassing plan properly died.
But progressives once again are advocating something like it, now that they fear Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee might cement a 5-4 hard conservative majority—and with a possible third appointment opening up in the next 30 months...
..Nullification Revisited
...The nihilistic idea of nullification helped spark the Civil War...
...The common themes in all these schemes are innate to progressivism.
To survive and spread, exalted righteousness always excuses tawdry methods, given the supposed ignorance and gullibility of the unenlightened.
Short-term expediency is well worth the goal of regaining power.
Any smell from low tactics later can be perfumed away—once power is back in the correct hands.
There is no such thing as a bad precedent that others less progressive, in Corcyraean or French Revolution fashion, might one day find useful in retaliation—given that the past is a mere construct that can be continually refashioned.
Today’s rhetoric can easily redefine yesterday’s reality.
Filibusters can be bad, then good, and soon bad again as the anointed need dictates, just like limits on speech and ideological or racial segregation.
We are in bad times, with much worse to come."
Much here, read all.
Even liberal historians usually label as disastrous two decisions by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration:
- the adoption of the Earl Warren-McClatchy newspaper inspired plan to intern Japanese-American citizens
- and the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937—better known as FDR “court-packing scheme.”
The latter was a crazy scheme to remake the Supreme Court, given that Roosevelt wanted no more judicial interference in the implementation of the New Deal...
...The embarrassing plan properly died.
But progressives once again are advocating something like it, now that they fear Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee might cement a 5-4 hard conservative majority—and with a possible third appointment opening up in the next 30 months... ..Nullification Revisited
...The nihilistic idea of nullification helped spark the Civil War...
...The common themes in all these schemes are innate to progressivism.
To survive and spread, exalted righteousness always excuses tawdry methods, given the supposed ignorance and gullibility of the unenlightened.
Short-term expediency is well worth the goal of regaining power.
Any smell from low tactics later can be perfumed away—once power is back in the correct hands.
There is no such thing as a bad precedent that others less progressive, in Corcyraean or French Revolution fashion, might one day find useful in retaliation—given that the past is a mere construct that can be continually refashioned.
Today’s rhetoric can easily redefine yesterday’s reality.
Filibusters can be bad, then good, and soon bad again as the anointed need dictates, just like limits on speech and ideological or racial segregation.
We are in bad times, with much worse to come."
Much here, read all.
