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Rob's avatar

At an eyes glance, some of the most unserious people are in the legislative branch. You have squad members in the house along with MTG, Paulina Luna, and Lauren Boebert… with Mike Johnson presiding over it all. In the senate you have some of the worst of the GOP with Murkowski and McConnell, and some of the worst of dems with Warren. Most of their careers seem to be news interviews and loud, flashy statements designed to piss off a certain demographic of boomer viewer. Easy to see how the suppression of their authority is a good thing.

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Dave49's avatar

The problem with relying on the judiciary to deliver wins to the right is that judges appointed by Republican presidents tend to be only slightly right of center originalists while Democrat appointed judges are left wing revolutionaries who rule for the political left irrespective of the merits of any case. Even Gorsuch delivered an activist leftist ruling when he helped rewrite the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and transsexuals even though those two groups are missing from the plain text of the law.

When the Congress does come together it's usually for Jews and/or Israel or the ungrateful black population. Or special interest groups or activist billionaires none of which helps white people as a collective.

America needs to break apart. We probably now rival the former Soviet Union in kleptocratic corruption, internal contradictions and racial and ethnic strife. It's too big and too racially and politically divided to be called a nation any longer. Like the Soviet Union it's only held together by brute force and not the mutual affection of the people and the government as the founders envisioned.

Muh federal disaster relief money and muh NFL won't hold us together forever.

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Sam's avatar

Given this environment of polarization, I often think that getting a constitutional amendment ratified would be basically impossible. I doubt we'll ever see another one in our lifetimes.

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Dave49's avatar

Democrats are also attempting to abolish the second amendment in states where they enjoy supermajorities in the state legislature such as Illinois, California, Washington and Oregon. It seems even some Republican appointed federal judges have gone soft on defending the 2A and I think it was in 2022-23 that SCOTUS refused to hear all nine cases involving second amendment violations.

But by golly if violent illegal aliens are arrested under the Alien Enemies Act then SCOTUS springs into action to defend them and grant due process rights that they've never had.

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Thunderchief's avatar

Scott, you’re right that the president and courts have been the main actors but how far can they really go?

The Deep State lives off laws Congress wrote.

It enforces its will through powers Congress granted.

Executive orders can’t dismantle a regime built by statute.

Court rulings can’t rewrite the swamp.

Trump and the Court “killed DEI”? Not really.

The 8(a) program still moves $30–60 billion per year—now using “lived experience” essays instead of race boxes.

The machine adapts because the legal architecture remains untouched.

Only Congress can kill Leviathan.

We don’t need to mourn the Madisonian ideal—we need to seize its sword.

Supermajority. War plan. Legislative shock and awe. That’s the way out.

You may think a supermajority is unrealistic. But I ask you, what other choice do we have? How can the Judiciary and the Presidency dismantle the deep state?

How do we build a supermajority, you ask?

By seizing it.

That’s the focus of my Substack—hopefully I can contribute to the blueprints.

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