Time That We Don’t Have

The Republican Party has one overriding objective. They want to pack the courts with conservative judges who will block the enactment progressive legislation, and who will actively dismantle all existing safeguards for workers, the elderly, the poor, the environment, and civil rights. To that end, they have made a deal with the devil. As long as that devil keeps nominating conservative judges and justices, they will support him regardless of the lasting damage that their partisan coup of the legal system will do to the country, its citizens, our standing in the world, or the Constitution that every elected official took an oath to defend. Only overwhelming support for progressive candidates and the rule of law can reverse the damage, a process that will take generations. Given that our planet is facing a showdown with imminent disaster in about a decade, this is time that we don’t have to spare.