Originally Posted by
time4fun
It's not that. It's part of a concerted conservative strategy of Court packing: it's basically all the Senate has accomplished in the last 4 years. It's not even properly responding to things like COVID because McConnell is too busy reshaping the Courts. It's one of the ways a minority party can stay in power. It's how Poland and Hungary's right wing parties managed to stay entrenched in power. Same with Putin.
The funny thing is, Republicans run around screaming about "judicial activism" while they've spent the last 4 years installing incredibly right wing ideologues who, in many cases, don't actually have the qualifications for the jobs. They're there because they can be trusted to ignore the law and precedent and make rulings on personal opinions.
Kind of like how Republicans run around screaming about voter fraud while they're systematically targeting groups who don't generally vote for them to take away their ability to cast votes. They've closed countless voting stations in minority and urban areas, enacted voter ID laws that restricted the number of acceptable IDs (in their favor), tried to do away with early voting and Sunday voting (Souls to the Polls is bad for business), and they engage in endless litigation to try to make voting harder, not easier. And now Trump is literally telling people to vote twice.
And like how Republicans scream about Free Speech and then call people who protest "terrorists", support a President who uses force against peaceful protesters, smile and nod while he deploys military assets on the ground to intimidate protesters, and clap their hands as he tries to retaliate against tech companies because they aren't giving priority to articles that say good things about him and his administration.
Or how they scream about media bias and then restrict themselves *only* to heavily partisan, conservative news outlets. Non-partisan outlets? Must be secretly partisan. Fact checkers? Must be secretly partisan. Fox News? Totally fair and balanced.
Generally speaking, take stock of what Republicans are screaming about. It's usually what they're busy doing.