They’re back in court, challenging Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel executive orders. Grateful for and humbled by their resolve.

Update: the experiment has officially failed. Famine has been declared, for what it’s worth to the thousands starving.

One qualification: the majority you refer to doesn’t see a lot of things at all. Would all of that majority think it worth the small short-term savings to the U.S. federal budget to let 150000 kids in Africa be born with HIV in the next 90 days? We shouldn’t assume constituencies are solid things.

Sure enough (with Mexico today).

The tariffs are scheduled to go into effect Tuesday, Feb.4. That leaves time to claim Canada and Mexico have met anti-immigration demands and back off while asserting victory.

re Watson: it’s an analogy to a populism derailed by pathologies, though not the same ones, exactly. The question mark is in earnest.

Accepting military flights but not shackles? Can you clarify and point me to a source? I’m only finding the narrative you criticize, which is discouraging.

As the others named in the post (including its author) have argued at greater length.

“I hold that every American has a right to form an opinion of the constitution, and to propagate that opinion, and to use all honorable means to make his opinion the prevailing one…” Douglass did not claim that opinion beats law but understood that the two interact. Not a quick fix but a long game.