INMATES RUNNING THE ASYLUM:

Related: “The quote you are thinking of is: ‘democracy is like a streetcar; you ride it until you reach your destination, then you get off.'”

 

AN EPITAPH, OF SORTS, FOR JOHN ROBERTS’ CREDIBILITY:

Roberts is entirely situational. He decides each case on its own terms based on the political climate of the day. Roberts does as much as he thinks he can get away with, no more and no less. In one case, minimalism. In another case, maximalism. Rules of prudence are thrown to the wind when the cause is just. And the Chief Justice uses whatever magic is needed to get there.

Roberts is not an institutionalist. He is an illusionist. But like all other illusionists, once he is off the stage, he will be quickly forgotten. Chief Justice Marshall’s decisions are still revered. Will anyone even remember the sorts of political compromises the Roberts Court navigated? Why did he vote to save Obamacare? Why did he vote to save Roe? I can barely remember the situations from the first Trump administration. Roberts’s opinions may as well be written with disappearing ink.

A weak man, performing weakly.

OUR PATHETIC ELITES:

Socialism is for losers. It provides a way that they can advance without producing anything of value and — more importantly — an avenue for revenge upon those who do.

THE ORTHODOX AND THE AMISH (OR EVEN THOSE WACKY EPISCOPALS WITH THEIR NO CONTRACT BRIDGE RITUALS) DON’T TEND TO EXPLODE:  Getting It Right.

And my people? We just genuflect, genuflect, genuflect. (Yes, it’s the song.)

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.