The actions of these unaccountable people, assuming they can get past a Republican Senate and a Republican president, will be subject to review by an unelected, unaccountable and increasingly politicized judiciary. If the Democrats take the Senate and the White House, the Supreme Court then becomes the only institution to protect the people. If the Democrats take the Senate and the White House, can we believe they will leave the Supreme Court alone?
Our federal system has become perverse. The federal government overreaches especially as it distorts the commerce clause while the judiciary condones. The state governments overreach in the chaos of the virus to radically rob the people of liberties, often without rational or scientific justification. In other words, the federal government is active where it should be restrained and states, in containing the virus or in creating sanctuaries against immigration controls, have undermined constitutional and representative rule.
In other words, our constitutional system is spinning out of control.
The prospects for setting the ship of state on a true course are bleak. If Donald Trump is not reelected, game over. If Donald Trump is elected, after him the deluge. No matter who inherits the White House, an economic downturn of severe proportions which might well occur as a result of the government shutting down the economy will make it difficult to turn the people away from the seductions of a tyrant. Virtually no institution in America is willing to risk its existence on behalf of constitutional liberty. The principles of the First Amendment have been done away with in social media and might well go the same way by government action. The people have rightly lost confidence in our government institutions beginning with the FBI and extending right through the CDC.
In short, there is little fundamental underpinning to which the people can rally on behalf of constitutional liberty. What little remains is under existential threat and Nancy Pelosi is only a prominent figure.
