As reported in an article in the Washington Post, How Steve Bannon guided the MAGA movement’s rebound from Jan. 6, Bannon wants to destroy our institutions and norms.
“Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too,” Bannon said. “I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
There is a scandal mostly being ignored, perhaps because Trump has normalized corruption.
As Heather Cox Richardson reports:
In the 1920s, President Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert Fall, went to prison for a year for accepting a $385,000 bribe from oilman Edward L. Doheny in exchange for leases to drill for oil on naval reserve land in Elk Hills and Buena Vista, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Fall was the first former cabinet officer to go to prison, and the scandal was considered so outrageous that “Teapot Dome” has gone down in U.S. history as shorthand for a corrupt presidency.
What isn’t be talked about now outside of MSNBC is that Trump told oil executives that if they gave $1 billion to his campaign, he would get rid of all the regulations the Biden administration has enacted to combat climate change. In effect, he is soliciting a bribe and no one is outraged.
Sad.
According to Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, the theory of “originalism” champions the views of “the few white men who made laws and shaped lives during the mostly racist and misogynistic very old days.”
As Mark Joseph Stern of Slate puts it, “Maybe rather than trying to beat conservatives at their own game [of originalism], progressives should present a competing vision of constitutional interpretation to the public—one which acknowledges that original meaning is often unknowable, and too frequently shackled to the antiquated views of dead white men. And maybe that would give disillusioned Americans a reason to believe in the rule of law once again.