Again, to you self-righteous folks: a protest non-vote is identical to an apathetic one. No one is coming to your house to ask you why you didn't vote. We're not your parents and, really, we don't think about you at all.
But your "protest" allows your rights to be taken away. Think of the long game.

so much of the conservative legal revolution seems to outright reject the idea that democratic publics legitimately constituted can fix the meaning of the constitution without formal amendment.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

“I mean, these are great — don’t get me wrong, I love them, but you shouldn’t have spent this kind of money. You got burned on these.”

That, I think is key: adjust expectations and modify methods. Most of the sorrow is because we can’t do the same things as always before.

When you have a pocket pardon you can do anything you want.

What’s fun is this is the sort of thing that historically is only discovered decades later, via deathbed confessions, etc.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Yes
XTC
The Walkabouts
REM
Billy Bragg