July 4th is a great time to try to get through to your Trump-ish family and friends

Do they really want judicial authoritarianism?

If they’re not just saying “yeah, America needs a dictator,” remind them of what they believed eight years ago about judges and judicial activism, and ask them how a judicial dictatorship feels.

Ask them how they’d like Clinton and Obama being literally above the law, because they are now, thanks to Trump’s judges.

From Slate:

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts thundered on Tuesday in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision granting Donald Trump, and all future presidents, sweeping immunity from prosecution. This judge-led revolution, he added ominously, “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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When a court that has been battered by near-weekly reports of undisclosed oligarch-funded vacations (and gifts and super yachts and tricked out RVs and secret conferences with high-paying Koch supporters getting access to justices) decides to make it easier to bribe public officials—as it did in Snyder v. U.S.—that’s a very public signal that the conservative supermajority does not care what you think.

When a court that has been caught with not one but two justices who have spouses who were excited by insurrectionist activity and symbols stands up those same justices as dispassionate and objective deciders of three separate Jan. 6 cases, that’s a very public signal that the conservative supermajority doesn’t care what you think.

And when that self same court makes it illegal for homeless people to sleep in parks because not one of these members of the conservative supermajority will lose sleep over homelessness, climate change, housing policy, or any of the other root causes of being forced to sleep in a park, it’s a very, very public signal that the justices don’t care what you think.

Whatever braking mechanism once existed at the court is now broken. We wake up this summer in a new government order.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t get them to change their minds today. Plant the seeds of doubt, one at a time. Slow them down, prevent them from herding stays back into the fold, maybe make them stray a little themselves.

Now is the time to get through to your Trumpy family and friends.

123 days remain.

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