The Assault on Objectivity

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Points made in the confirmation hearings include that the current newest Justice is a troubled drinker, is a political extremist, and is prone to believing conspiracy stories about the Other Side. He is hyper-partisan on a position in which partisanship is unwelcome. This should have been known -- or it all either did not matter or was acceptable and even desirable to the pols who rammed him through the process of confirmation. The Republican Party and (then) Judge Kavanaugh made this clear without the aid of any 'politically-correct' Democrats even if the allegations of sexual assault were untrue. If you did not see the hearings yourself you may have seen them in parody on Saturday Night Live.

We now have a President who believes that even an ephemeral majority serves as a pretext for short-circuiting the checks and balances necessary for ensuring that a one-time bare majority does not become an excuse for entrenching itself. We have bare majorities in both Houses of Congress who enable this degradation of the norms of our Constitutional heritage.

Make America Great Again? Sure. If you loved Mussolini, you will like Trump.