"What Fulnecky’s mother is saying out loud — that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to teach at all — is what this movement actually wants."
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Between dropping the charges against Eric Adams (who took funding out of Turkey) and Henry Cuellar (who worked as an agent for Azerbaijan), Trump is tossing the doors as wide open as possible to foreign regimes trying to buy off American politicians.

The signal is impossible to miss.

the goal for all these brunchlord centrist types, to be clear, is to undermine and pre-empt good faith progressive reform as THE solution to authoritarianism, in favor of yet another wave of reheated deregulatory corporatism.

the whole treatise that regulation is just inherently bad is libertarian toddler gibberish. none of these writers or thinkers are interesting; they're propped up by the extraction class owners of consolidated media because the real conversation we need to have threatens their wealth and status

the ultimate example of the problem here was when lefties yelled at Biden that SCOTUS was going to ruin his administration, and he appointed a blue ribbon panel who said "do nothing," and Biden went "well hands tied," and then SCOTUS repealed half his achievements and crowned Trump a king

that said previous Dem admins have largely be run by lawyer brained rule followers who move with glacial slowness, and the administrative process is slow as shit. Dems could stand a helping of "ask forgiveness rather than permission" and bedrock institutional reform

I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.

Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.

Lesson 3: The shy Trumpists think that Trump is showing us how power should be used, minus the authoritarianism of course *even though* they also critique imperious centrist figures who used power without accountability. So what does accountability mean in this context?

Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."