Dans argued the policies laid out in Project 2025 are popular with the president’s base, and said: “I think it was one of the great electoral miscalculations in history [by the Democratic Party] to demonise Project 2025 rather than just tell the people what their vision was for the next four years.”
We could have used daily stories about this prior to the election. Hour long specials, constant questioning of Donvict beforehand, and so on.
It’s kind of too late to do this kind of assessment now that this piece of shit and true believers like JD are in there.
I posted this comment four months before Trump’s election and I feel it is appropriate to post it again:
Left-wing voters: [Conservative politician] will do [bad thing]
Right-wing voters: [Conservative politician] will not do [bad thing], quit fear-mongering
…
Conservative politician (newly-elected): As part of our agenda, we will do [bad thing]
Left-wing voters: See! They will do [bad thing]!
Right-wing voters: No, they will not actually do [bad thing], it’s just banter
…
Conservative politician (having done [bad thing]): I am pleased to announce we have just done [bad thing]
Left-wing voters: See! They just did [bad thing]!
Right-wing voters: [Bad thing] is good, actually
…
(2 years after [bad thing] was done)
Right-wing voters: It’s [other party]'s fault that [bad thing] happened, I need to vote for [conservative politician] so that they can fix [problem caused by bad thing].
This is pretty much how it went for SCOTUS throwing out 50 years of law, except the last part: the right just moved the goalposts and cranked up more gaslighting about how there really won’t be Gilead States.
They didn’t even pretend as if anything needed to be fixed, they just wanted to push the Overton window even further by outlawing things in free states and trying to get rid of the Plan B everywhere, etc.
Yeah, most decisions by SCOTUS nowadays feel like they are justified with “We don’t like X, so now it’s Y” and attached to it is a dissent that says “The majority only says Y because X is not politically expedient for them”
I think I read this somewhere before.
However, it might just be that I’m remembering my own personal experience with reality. Hard to tell for sure.
