"Quite apart from the constitutional and civic merits, the whole fabric of U.S. citizenship falls apart without the anchor of birthright citizenship." Correct. That's not a bug -- it's the main feature.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats got like this overnight. Both the Republican transformation from conservatives into fascists and the Democratic transformation from New Dealers into worthless enablers took 50 years. The parties do not change quickly. It takes many decades.

The Supreme Court is going to grind any future Democratic presidency into dust. Right now, Democrats and independents who caucus with them are unanimously fine with that. That includes all your faves.

This is why the court must be reformed, with power of the current corrupt judges diluted by the addition of judges who respect the constitution along with other reforms. The extreme corruption of Robert’s court does not have to be accepted.

I elaborated Brian's ideas a bit. Republicans see people as objects to be deceived, manipulated, and dominated without interior lives or agency. Democrats see people as fixed data points driven by material conditions who can only be reached by mirroring their identities and topline preferences.

This chart looks like an early wave of buyers remorse that crested near the end of April 2025, followed by slow and steady attrition. It does not look like public opinion is responding AT ALL to anything Trump or his opponents have done.

Supreme Court expansion will either happen in early 2029, or Democrats won't be allowed to govern. Democrats will either find a way to climb this mountain all the way to the top by that time, or they will die on it.

The enabling never stops.

Blinkered proceduralism is one of the hallmarks of Silent Generation leadership and their gerontocratic capture of the party. They had decades to institutionalize it in the party's culture and groom successors incapable of behaving differently. Prior to the Silents, Dems were not like this.

Neither party has any clue how to remain popular enough to keep a trifecta for more than two years.

Democrats keep winning special elections because the other party is in the White House. This is the most predictable pattern in politics. But if Democrats think it's a vote of confidence for them, they have a nasty surprise coming soon. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Yikes! Booker has a severe case of Senate Brain. Even removing him from office can't cure this chronic and debilitating condition. He'll be this clueless and out of touch for the rest of his life, no matter where that takes him.

Elite impunity is one of the most important background conditions for fascism and lawlessness to thrive. Make no mistake: The data shows that Democrats have enabled both for decades, and they're still at it. We cannot and will not defeat fascism or restore the rule of law until that changes.

There are always Democrats enabling fascism -- every time. Mullin was a member of the senators club. I'm sorry, Democratic voters, but you and your preferences are not.

When it comes to elite impunity, Democrats and Republicans are on the same page. They both support it and have gotten more supportive over time. This graph is not a portrait of the two parties disagreeing. On this issue, the differences between them are at best a matter of degree, not in kind.

This analysis has it backwards. The Groups are among those pushing the hardest for structural reform and accountability, and for Democrats to fight not fold. Centrists and the party's consultants are the ones advocating conflict avoidance, complacency, cowardice, and a prefab boilerplate agenda.

Liberals depend on their knowledge, reasoning, reasonableness, and empathy to guide and protect them. But these things offer no protection against toxic personalities, manipulation by other liberals, and a broken information environment. They cope with denial, sticking their heads in the sand.

There are always Democrats enabling fascism, and it never stops.

It's not possible to be a serious ideology, movement, or political program when close to 100% of your adherents are completely checked out from the practical realities of how political ideas spread, have been for decades, and show no interest in changing. This fundamentally discredits liberalism.

A lot of Senate Democrats still haven't gotten the memo on this one.

The Biden presidency was a world-historic failure because it ended with Trump. If you voted for Biden in the 2020 primary, you caused that failure. Until you reckon with how you got it so wrong, you'll keep failing over and over again, and fascists will keep coming back.

Yes, MAGA has a hard time with object permanence. To be fair, it's easy to lose to people with the cognitive development of infants when your own side can't grasp kindergarten-level political strategy.

IMO, liberalism has fundamentally discredited itself with its many decades of disinterest in media and comms. You can't be serious about politics when close to 100% of your adherents are totally disengaged from the practical realities shaping how political ideas spread.

There's another caucus where he could vote with the majority of its members every time. Most days, he's not very good at hiding that's where he'd rather be.

Getting to do war crimes is a big part of why fascists start wars. The crimes are not a bug. They're among the main attractions.

The gerontocracy is still going strong, and it's already many years too late to avoid its most cataclysmic outcomes.

"Kamikaze primary" is the term I use for a primary challenge whose aims or actions can make an incumbent unelectable in the general election.

Democrats have never stopped enabling fascism, and they're still at it every single day.

There are always Democrats enabling fascism. ALWAYS. All that red is Democratic enabling. Don't forget that all of your Senate Democratic faves sided with Trump against you, because Rubio is part of the senators club and you are not.

Trump is the oldest president in history, Graham is a 70-year-old career politician, and Netanyahu is 76. So the war they started against Iran and its fallout count as consequences of gerontocracy and examples of gerontocratic misrule.

Democrats pretend to be an opposition but there’s always enough of them to validate whatever a Republican wants.

Most people have no idea that our gerontocracy has set back generational replacement in Congress by almost two full decades. Here's how to think about what this means: The kind of leadership we need in Congress RIGHT NOW to fight fascism won't be in office until the mid-2040s.

Since the 1960s, the Republican Party's internal culture has generally welcomed primaries, while the Democratic Party's culture has generally opposed them. As a result, Republican lawmakers are highly responsive and loyal to their base, while Democratic lawmakers are contemptuous of theirs.

There are ALWAYS Democrats enabling fascism, and it never stops. It's constant in ways you can see like this and in many ways you never hear about.

Not a single Dem talking about Nuremberg 2.0 has given any kind of indication of what that looks like, and given how utterly terrified they were to even file an impeachment motion against a dog killing Nazi, the idea they'll actually hold anyone accountable is laughable.

There are ALWAYS Democratic enablers. Want the enabling to stop? Primary every incumbent every cycle.

A party whose elected leaders can't stop enabling fascism can't stop fascism. It's simply beyond their capability. This is not a debatable point -- it's a tautology.

One big reason for my now-permanent vote of no confidence in the Democratic Party is that its elected leaders have never stopped enabling Republicans and fascism. It's never going to stop until every incumbent is certain they'll face a viable primary challenge every cycle.

There are always Democratic enablers. Always. Every time. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

For over 20 years I've maintained that there was no chance of a Democrat winning statewide in Texas until 2026 at the earliest, and it could only happen under the following conditions: It would have to be a historic blue wave nationwide, the perfect candidate, and everything would have to go right.

I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down

Why is it that republicans have the ability to hold up nominees but not Dems? Oh yeah, because Dems are all chickenshits.

More primaries please! Lots more. This isn't even 15% of House Democrats.

Professional political pollsters almost never test this, because doing so with any regularity would fundamentally discredit most issue polling -- and the Democratic leadership's overreliance on it.

Republicans see politics -- including international politics -- as civil war by other means. This has been true for many decades to varying degrees. But Trump's influence has shifted it from a peripheral factor to one of the right's central organizing and motivating principles.

This is a set of weak process complaints, not an actual opposition. As expected, the Democratic leadership learned NOTHING from their years of failed positioning on the Iraq War, which helped Bush get reelected. That's because Democratic lawmakers never faced any accountability the last time.

We are doomed to continually repeat the same mistakes and failures with ever-worsening consequences, because we stopping holding anyone accountable for them a long time ago. What's more, no one who is in a position to change that -- or potentially within reach of such a position -- wants to.

On the Democrats: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

House Democrats now have time to work on updating inherent contempt, so they can enforce their own subpoenas next Congress. Will they? Of course not! Oversight with teeth risks exposing impeachable crimes they don't want to act on. And as elites themselves, most quietly agree with elite impunity.

Voters have correctly appraised the Democratic Party as weak and ineffective.