“At some point you have to ask: what’s wrong with the electorate that we keep elevating obviously mentally unwell people? It’s not like there’s a shortage of psychologically normal people with conservative policy views, if that’s what people want.”
-Julian Sanchez
Unfortunately, while the Founding Fathers did foresee the possibility of personalistic rule, they did not expect Congress to betray the Constitution and become the willing toadies of the wannabe dictator.
– Steve Metz
Knowledge of how things work necessarily reduces the “diversity of perspectives” along some dimensions. We reject views that are demonstrably false.
Overheard: When you smear lamb’s blood above your door so J.D. Vance doesn’t visit… Assover.
Someone should ask Hegseth why F/A-18s have started identifying as submarines under his watch. Is that “warrior culture”?
Update: Third F/A-18 in the drink! “Super Hornet” to be renamed “Lemming.” More seriously, three?!? WTF?
The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either.
-Justice Robert Jackson
Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
-Aaron Reichlin-Melnick