What Happened to American conservatism?

[uncgriff]

the US system of government was designed such that each branch of government would be inherently protective of its constitutional authority. what we are seeing today is what happens when Congress and the Supreme court bow to the executive, driven by the fact that as a country we have almost no truly contested districts to actually hold people accountable. it will require a real revolution at the ballot box to change the course we are on assuming we ever have fair elections again.

 

[lawtig02]

the US system of government was designed such that each branch of government would be inherently protective of its constitutional authority. what we are seeing today is what happens when Congress and the Supreme court bow to the executive, driven by the fact that as a country we have almost no truly contested districts to actually hold people accountable. it will require a real revolution at the ballot box to change the course we are on assuming we ever have fair elections again.

I really worry about our nation's ability to regain our constitutional norms with all the damage that has been done over the last few years, and especially if the Great Gerrymandering proceeds apace. It's not about the left's desire for a new, modern constitution. It's that the right has effectively nullified it, so we're now in a moment between social contracts, and unfortunately, that moment is almost always violent.

 

[superrific]

the US system of government was designed such that each branch of government would be inherently protective of its constitutional authority. what we are seeing today is what happens when Congress and the Supreme court bow to the executive, driven by the fact that as a country we have almost no truly contested districts to actually hold people accountable. it will require a real revolution at the ballot box to change the course we are on assuming we ever have fair elections again.

The problem isn't so much the Supreme Court "bowing" to the executive as completely failing to comprehend your first sentence. I mean, the result is the same, but the Supreme Court sees what they are doing as principled. "Separation of powers" considerations always seem to dominate, but reading their opinions, you'd never know that separation of powers was considered a means to an end. It's as if they think Articles I-III were just a classification system, and not a design of checks and balances.

 

[Centerpiece]

the US system of government was designed such that each branch of government would be inherently protective of its constitutional authority. what we are seeing today is what happens when Congress and the Supreme court bow to the executive, driven by the fact that as a country we have almost no truly contested districts to actually hold people accountable. it will require a real revolution at the ballot box to change the course we are on assuming we ever have fair elections again.

In which case it would require a real revolution