Sadly, it no longer surprises me when a @JVLast column is indistinguishable from any generic progressive pundit, complete with intellectual short cuts around grappling seriously with opposing argumentshttps://thebulwark.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-and-the-coming-political-crisis/ …
A legitimation crisis as a old as America's first peaceful transfer of power.
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I get the blunt desire for power, and you’re rationales duly follow. But there’s no conceivable normative justification for a defeated lame duck senate to confirm the nominee of defeated president. Zero.
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And the funny thing is that a minimally decent president and majority leader (and pundit) could have come up with a way to call the political question without creating the circumstances that will doom this short lived majority.
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These normative arguments operate in an alternate reality where Trump doesn’t exist. In this realm, it’s evident that this is the culmination of a cynical GOP bargain to engineer a durable judicial advantage by enabling a singularly divisive & morally unfit President.
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