The simple fact that you must play the “What If?” game is a huge silver lining. Every time that game comes up, it’s pretty clear that there will be attorneys getting rich and injunctions abounding.
This ruling is an application of Saul Alynski’s rule
#4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
IF Roberts’ ruling was truly his view of the constitution and really is playing a “longer” game, then what he basically said is...
“If you elect tyrannical morons who want to tax you, then you get what you voted for”.
I still am not sure I am buying all this retcon on Roberts as genuine, but in reality, conservatives are paying the price for not being as engaged and involved as liberals over the years in nuts and bolts, grassroots level-full spectrum work. Libs took over education, journalism and hollywood, which has paid off over decades in the “long game”.
I truly hope Roberts is really playing 3D long form chess, but I’m not buying it out of blind faith.
The bus is still headed to the same cliff, just a matter of how fast either party drives or which route they take.