If we just accepted that public opinion was always the thing our leaders should be chasing, things like the civil rights act and suffrage would have never happened. It takes leaders with moral backbone to say THIS IS WRONG and public opinion FOLLOWS THAT.

being fussy and precious about fairness, bending over backwards to *perform* virtuousness, all while MAGA rips the Constitution to shreds, is not defending American democracy. it's conspiring with Republicans to destroy it