clairecloutier
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I'm feeling so down today. 
It's not that I was expecting Romney to stand against this. Unlike many, I'm under no delusion that he's "better" than other Republicans.
It's more just the gradual realization of how bad it's all going to be. When I think about the thousands of people whose voting rights have already been suppressed due to Shelby v. Holder, and how that could get much worse under a 6-3 court, and when I think of the 22 million Americans who stand to lose their health insurance if Obamacare is invalidated, I feel miserable.
I don't think people fully realize what is happening here, and how their own rights could wind up being limited or abridged or undermined by this far-right court. Plus, God knows what such a court would do with contested election results, which is a very possible scenario this year.
It's funny because Republicans talked about how they considered the 2016 election their Flight 93 election, and I never understood that, but it seems clear that that that's the scenario Democrats are actually facing in 2020.
Lots of articles/opinion pieces out there about this, but I found this one from E. J. Dionne particularly good:

It's not that I was expecting Romney to stand against this. Unlike many, I'm under no delusion that he's "better" than other Republicans.
It's more just the gradual realization of how bad it's all going to be. When I think about the thousands of people whose voting rights have already been suppressed due to Shelby v. Holder, and how that could get much worse under a 6-3 court, and when I think of the 22 million Americans who stand to lose their health insurance if Obamacare is invalidated, I feel miserable.
I don't think people fully realize what is happening here, and how their own rights could wind up being limited or abridged or undermined by this far-right court. Plus, God knows what such a court would do with contested election results, which is a very possible scenario this year.

It's funny because Republicans talked about how they considered the 2016 election their Flight 93 election, and I never understood that, but it seems clear that that that's the scenario Democrats are actually facing in 2020.
Lots of articles/opinion pieces out there about this, but I found this one from E. J. Dionne particularly good: