Jesus christ has Jacobin always been this lib or has it just recently gone mask off?
“For instance, efforts by populists to undermine judicial independence are often couched in democratic terms, based on claims that judicial activism has resulted in a small elite using its control of the courts to impose its own norms contrary to the will of the majority, and that reining in the courts amounts to “balancing out democratic powers by promoting the popular will.””
Also god damn that’s one Hell of a straight faced take…
It’s openly, outwardly true. Every single fucking major US political leader has openly stated that’s what the Supreme Court and Senate are for! IT’S THE FUCKING STATED PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM JACOBIN AREGEFLGHJFjeufhaasddfghhh! falls over
How can an Amerikan who’s supposedly a leftist journalist write something like that when their own supreme court is openly planning to wreck the last vestiges of even the flimsy bourgeois pretenses of democracy in the US? How is it “le evil populism” to criticize that 6 unelected ghouls singlehandedly roll civil rights back to the state of 1776 when there’s a popular two-thirds majority for things like abortion?
Edit: nvm this is from a “former” British intelligence officer, ofc he has a different perspective because in his country courts may impair Tories’ ability to genocide trans people.
Humanity, we may imagine, in the absence of climate collapse, is likely to exist for many thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years to come.
“I imagine that, in the absence of drinking a lot of alcohol, I am unlikely to die in a car crash tonight.”
- Me, half way through my fourth beer at this bar.
I can’t figure out why he chose to write that. Makes him look like an undergrad with a wordcount to inflate.
Prior to his graduate studies, he served as a regular officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps from 1989 to 1994
Little bit of context for you context heads.
