Alternate heads: “The Notorious Katie Couric” and “I didn’t even know Donald Trump had a cranky Jewish aunt!”.
Yeah, the fairly shocking news that Saint Ruth’s attitude towards blacks was “We made it on our own; why can’t they?” and then sought to “take back” her own banal sentiments—almost like she didn’t believe in freedom of the press—is pretty much “over”, as is the “news” that the lamestream media often protects us from things we shouldn’t ought to know. I wrote, not too flatteringly, about Ginsberg at the time of her death, arguing that the whole hagiology of the Court on both the left and right should be discarded. They aren’t gods or goddesses—not by a long shot—and we shouldn’t expect them to “save” us, as we so often do, and as they are so often willing to do. Unfortunately, at the present time, democratic processes are increasingly locked, as liberals and conservatives no longer talk to each other or trust one another and are increasingly unwilling to make “tough” decisions, relying either on the president, or, best of all, the courts, who aren’t afraid of losing their jobs.
The current disarray of the Biden administration is due largely to big city liberals wanting to enact a legislative program that “everyone” knows is “necessary”—everyone that they know, at least. Democrats were filled with delight with the “Blue Wave” of 2018, that brought a lot of “new liberal” Democrats in—“liberals” who often called themselves socialists, largely for the shock value, though they didn’t know that. But the wave also brought in a lot of moderates too, from the swing states. Well, the 2020 “undertow” eliminated many of the moderates, leaving the Democratic majority both shrunken and more “left”.
Now, while the “new Democrats” in the House are demanding wholescale enactment of “their” agenda, the Biden administration is desperately courting Trump voters, and thus pursuing what are essentially neo-Trumpian policies with regard to immigration and foreign trade, pretty much the opposite of what was promised, while the Senate “moderates” are desperately defending the financial interests of the top 20%.1 It’s no wonder that Biden is likely to rely on “executive action” as often as Trump did, and also no wonder that the right will increasingly look to the courts to “protect” them. Ruthie, you should have retired!
1. I’m sure a lot of top twenty folks will indignantly say “I’m not rich!”, and if you are buying a house (a “nice” one, to be sure) and expecting to put two or three kids through high-end colleges, well, you aren’t loaded. But you aren’t poor—even if you are carrying a shitload of debt.
