We’ve been winning?

Pharyngula 2024-07-03

Uh-oh. The villains are monologuing.

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, is gloating over the Supreme Court decision to enable an imperial presidency.

…let me speak about the radical left. You and I have both been parts of faculties and faculty senates and understand that the left has taken over our institutions. The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning.

And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.

Funny, I don’t think the Left has been winning at any time in my lifetime. After Reagan and Bush I and Bush II and Trump we’re supposed to believe we’ve been triumphing because we managed to elect a couple of centrist presidents who had to struggle against a mostly conservative congress? US politics have been biased by the influence of big money.

It’s interesting that Roberts, after singing the praises of the Sacred Constitution and suggesting this decision was a natural evolution of the Federalist papers, compares the decision to the American Revolution. Wasn’t that a time when the old rules and the old government were completely overthrown? You can’t simultaneously claim nothing is different and call it a revolution.

Then, that not-so-veiled threat: the revolution will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Surrender, puny Leftists! If you oppose us, our response will be bloody and crushing.

The shocking thing is that they’re gleefully promising this destruction for the benefit of a dim-witted con artist.