Piece is wishful thinking based on mistaken premise.
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I did not suggest he wouldn't be confirmed. I just recounted history and suggested it would repeat itself. Yours was a
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That's not the wishful thinking. The wishful thinking is that there will be a backlash to the substance of the Court's opinions. 1/2
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The false premise is that replacing Kennedy with Kavanaugh will produce Court dramatically to the right of the voting public. 2/2
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Not false. Set aside abortion, and it’s true true true.
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The Court will most likely shred Roe to pieces. Agree it won’t overturn it.
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"Shred to pieces" in this formulation means allow state-level restrictions with majority support. Good or bad, that's unlikely to produce major backlash. Substance of Roe is to left of popular opinion.
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I never, ever said there would be a backlash b/c of what the Court will do to Roe. Jonathan we are friends, please read the piece. We don’t know all the Court will do but unless Roberts really pulls center, it will be a lot. Gov’t officials, all of them, use the power they have.
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Kavanaugh will punish separation of church and state....he will obliterate the establishment clause...welcome to Theocratic America....then we can be labeled a shit-hole Cuntry too
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I agree with much of it, but not with the idea that McConnell wouldn’t have gotten away with it if not for the abortion and LGBT rights decisions.
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