He should also be telling voters what Dems will do when they take control of Congress, which he might do if Dem leadership had any such plans.

Are voters (esp. POC) going to bravely face armed goons at the polls to vote for feckless cowards?

Honestly, we're getting past rebuilding the existing system. Any change will have to be radical, not because I'm some sort of radical, but because so many systems have been broken. A new foundation has to be set, and that requires a sea change in public values.

The only violence that's necessary is that which protects the rights of our fellows from being trampled on.

We can't get that from institutions that equate in law the lies of white supremacists with the unequivocal facts.

What we can't yet answer is how to replace them safely.

I think that in the same way that the forced responses to COVID hinted at the feasibility of universal healthcare in the US, Reconstruction showed that they could be fought back if equal justice were *truly* guaranteed in the US.

However, our institutions were never built for that fight.

Approaches to this problem have been proposed, built, and expanded upon for literally centuries.

Ending chattel slavery, reparations, universal suffrage, public education, libraries...All intended to address this!

OTOH, progress on the fascist side of the ledger happens too!

Once the Exercise branch is granted absolute power (as in Trump v US), it's hard to argue the Supreme Court can modify it in any meaningful way.

Their decisions no longer have the weight of law because the rule of law is dead.

Additionally, it's quite possible that corporate Dems (more than just Cuomo) are counting on the regime to target left-of-center Dems, shielding them from the threat of being challenged from the left even as their popularity tanks.

Last year's violent repression of peaceful protesters at Columbia and elsewhere wasn't a fluke, of course.

Authoritarian Democrats might be...less than competent at perceiving the threat of fascism, to put it lightly.

I like that "purity tests" gives many of those people an irresistable opportunity to admit they don't care (or even support) things like sexual assault and eugenics.

Not that I like knowing so many people fall into that camp, but I'm glad they're so terrible at hiding it.

These numbers, plus ~1k Jan6 insurrectionists, plus fascists in local police, plus an unknown number of rightwing militia members that the state will turn a blind eye towards.

The scale of violence that can be created is truly staggering, as is the intensity of denialism that accompanies it.

To put it simply, the legal arguments undergirding the conservative (aka neo-confederate) movement have been failing one after another in the last 75 years.

In desperation, the movement's leaders now resort to lawlessness to obtain their preferred social order.

They *want* to be ruled by a Republican king. It's no mistake that their opinion here is based on the limits on power of English tribunals that existed in 1789, when England was still a formal Monarchy.

Law still exists in such states, but it's largely discretionary (as KBJ notes).

Whistleblowers have been harshly punished while those who committed war crimes, authorized torture, and even attempted a violent coup were protected (and then reelected!).

How can we ask soldiers to sacrifice themselves to defend principles that the very government they serve rejects?

Solicitor General

Yes, we did. Same with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also the US practice of chattel slavery. Also, also, the mass murder of indigenous peoples and erasure of their culture.

Our country's many horrible sins do absolve the sins of anyone else.

Justice must follow all such crimes--not excuses.

The recent near- unanimus House vote on the Take It Down bill was quite brazen too. Fascist power is solidifying everywhere.

It will always be possible to reject and overcome fascism, but how many casualties we suffer can be minimized with immediate and strong opposition.

It won't come from Dems.

Criminalizing transition care can also be a way to backdoor the prohibition of hormonal birth control.

As a lay person, contempt charges require a clear chain of responsibility. If the lawyer is being left in the dark there could be multiple officials stonewalling.

The judge needs to order sworn declarations from Bondi and Rubio regarding Garcia's status. DOJ's counsel is useless.