john roberts would crumble into tears and dust at the first real television attack ad on him and i think dem aligned superPACs should at least do some focus testing on exactly that
We’ve already seen that. And not that it argues against your electoral strategy, fellow Amateur Armchair Idiot, but Fox, the WSJ and the Right Wing will go absolutely apeshit about how this politicizes the Court*.
* I’m a formative adult of the 80s/90s and have heard every RW specious BS argument.
How can he not know that what he just wrote is the absolute final end of whatever remained of the apolitical public respect for the institution he’s always claimed to care about? He must know on some level, right?
I would love to see a coordinated push with an actual plan to reform the judiciary. Make expanding and packing the courts a direct outcome of handing the presidency and Congress to the Democrats. (No. Democrats have not had Congress at any point during Biden’s term when depending on Manchin/Sinema.)
Fuck a focus test, just cut some promos and release them. Hit them with back to back attacks and keep hitting. Eventually, something will stick when it does drill down on that shit.
make sure to do so rude & insultingly, with portrayals of the right wing justices as tacky and over the top and greedy which would drive them up the wall
make their jobs fucking miserable and make them personally miserable doing them. even a cush trip on a cruise ship is gonna turn to ash if you have op research photographers capturing every minute.
as we have seen with thomas and alito, judges do not have the sixth sense for covering their tracks through damaging or embarrassing trails that lifelong elected politicians do and don’t have the rapid response skills to deflect when they’re called on it
Democrats are constrained from making the full court (haw) press denying the legitimacy of a court without legitimacy (re the Electora College) because they don’t want to pull back the curtain from the Wizard