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Posted on 02/22/2026 7:34:27 AM PST by Rummyfan
Democrats cheer or jeer the Court as convenience dictates; their lone consistency is power—pursued relentlessly, defended fiercely, and projected onto opponents.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. The Democrats might repeat Emerson’s motto, but they go one better. They eschew all forms of consistency—except one. Today, since the Supreme Court just ruled against Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs, the Dems are in a festive mood and are happy to praise the Court. No worries, Trump has recourse to many other statutes to pursue his economic policies. That was something the Left began to realize by Friday afternoon, when Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set forth their plans for a workaround. Gloom and then anger gripped the liberal talking heads as they realized that their promised victory over Trump was evaporating before their very eyes.
But what I want to call attention to here is the fickleness of the Left’s attitude toward the Court. It was not so long ago, when the Supreme Court repeatedly ruled in favor of Trump, that the Dems talked darkly about packing the Court and setting term limits for justices and otherwise made their displeasure known. Remember Chuck Schumer pontificating from the steps of the Court? “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” he said. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Threat, or warning?
The rule is, if you side with us, we coddle you. Go against our pet projects—climate change, COVID policy, Obamacare, trans-weirdness of any kind, censorship of dis-, mis-, mal-information, etc.—and we try to destroy you.
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Who is the party of might makes right?
That was March 4, 2020. Then June 2022, an armed man was arrested outside Kavanaugh's home and charged with attempted assassination after traveling there from California on a mission to kill Kavanaugh and possibly his family.
Schumer incited murder and nearly got murder. The consequences of Schumer's threat should be remembered along with the threat itself.
It’s just the “What have you done for me lately?” syndrome.
Leftists are crying today.
The article makes a flawed assumption that the Left has priciples.
“Democrats cheer or jeer the Court as convenience dictates; their lone consistency is power”
Oh, come on! Like we on’t do the same?
Yes both sides want power because they think their way is the right way. And to implement what you want you need power.
So stop bitching and moaning about how bad the other side is and beat them up.
“Who is the party of might makes right?”
Like it or not, might does make right.
The winners write history and define what’s right or wrong.
So the problem is epistemological, that is to say, our conception of what is right is going to carry the day, no matter how many times the EU considers mutilated men as women, or no matter how many times the Russians put you in jail for breaching Article 58: crimes against the state. When a people do not consent to a might, that might has power, but it has no legitimacy.
Ain’t that the truth.
“When a people do not consent to a might, that might has power, but it has no legitimacy.”
And how do people effectively show their consent?
In a democracy you might do it by voting, but that only works if the powers that be (ie, “might”) allows, or want fair voting.
So what happens if they don’t. What recourse does the majority have?
The only one is to supply itself with enough might (arms, resolve, organization) to start a revolution a revolution to overthrow the current powers that be.
And if they win they will be right. Their might made them right, at least until a greater “might” makes them wrong.
If they win they will be in power.
Whether someone is in power or not doesn't make them right. That's a basic American civics.
But I think you don't even believe in what is right. You just believe in sheer power and the pure equivalency of might and right. Like some Chinese divine mandate.
I like to point that out sometimes. The left fought hard to “reunite” Elian Gonzalez with his father. We need to do the same with the hundreds of thousands of children who were smuggled in to the U.S. Let us mercifully reunite them with their parents.
“If they win they will be in power.”
And they will define and enforce what they think is right. No?
“But I think you don’t even believe in what is right”
I have my own beliefs of what’s wrong or right, just like you do.
And I’ll fight for that to the extent that I can and want to, and you will do the same for yours.
And so if I win I will be right according to my belief and the same goes for you.
It’s really that simple.
What is consent? A form of agreement, like a treaty that averts war. What is right will be agreed on.
The popes once believed in the right price for things. (maybe they still do.) But the real price is a natural agreement. I don't need to pummel you over the head with that to make it right. We can both be little sovereigns.
And there's more: without a common human nature, there can be no consent.
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