This matter has never been litigated much less adjudicated except in the media and therefore there is no legitimacy to any result whether proclaimed by a senator or a Freeper even if the senator or the former Secretary of Defense is endorsed by the media.
The absence of legitimacy, however, does not imply the absence of inevitability. Indeed, the issue of legitimacy, as we Americans used to understand it, is of no relevance anymore. We are contriving results based on a postmodern ideology that disregards reason and "cancels" venues in which reason was traditionally sorted out.
Where is the Supreme Court? Where is Congress? Where are the state legislatures? They are virtually all inert.
We are embarking on a new intellectual dark age, an age that is the enemy of every virtue of the Enlightenment. A political dark age is lurking just behind.
