Listening to today's Bulwark with AB Stoddard. I'm confused on two aspects of the conversation. When you guys talked about the Democrats' brains being broken about the Court, but you acknowledge how folks on the right view control of the Court in a Flight 93 way because of abortion rights, etc. I mean, isn't it possible that the side wi…
Listening to today's Bulwark with AB Stoddard. I'm confused on two aspects of the conversation. When you guys talked about the Democrats' brains being broken about the Court, but you acknowledge how folks on the right view control of the Court in a Flight 93 way because of abortion rights, etc. I mean, isn't it possible that the side with the extremist views about SCOTUS is the side whose brain is broken?
Re: the Bork nomination - I don't remember this and am depending on retrospective sources. Why would his role in the "Saturday Night Massacre" *not* made him problematic to reasonable people? I get that a lot of his views reflected (and probably still reflect) a lot of conservatives' at the time, but how would his willingness to be part of President Nixon's awfulness not sway the average conservative?
Listening to today's Bulwark with AB Stoddard. I'm confused on two aspects of the conversation. When you guys talked about the Democrats' brains being broken about the Court, but you acknowledge how folks on the right view control of the Court in a Flight 93 way because of abortion rights, etc. I mean, isn't it possible that the side with the extremist views about SCOTUS is the side whose brain is broken?
Re: the Bork nomination - I don't remember this and am depending on retrospective sources. Why would his role in the "Saturday Night Massacre" *not* made him problematic to reasonable people? I get that a lot of his views reflected (and probably still reflect) a lot of conservatives' at the time, but how would his willingness to be part of President Nixon's awfulness not sway the average conservative?