How far left will the US now go?

How far left will the US now go?

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes:

– Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court
– Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons
– Defunding the Pentagon
– Mass amnesty for illegals

 

Jonathon Turley:

Various sites are running lists of targets as influencers such as Hasan Piker is posting on “WE’RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The conditions on the Hill are only likely to make such rage politics more appealing with the new Congress.

Glenn Reynolds:

Now we have prominent Democrats talking about throwing their opponents in jail, seizing Elon Musk’s companies — after throwing him in jail for, I dunno, the crime of being in opposition I guess — and enacting various changes, like packing the Supreme Court, adding Puerto Rico and DC as states, and opening the borders to ensure that no election can remove them from power again.

That’s “late democracy.” Very late. …

A moral and religious people doesn’t crow about imprisoning or executing its political opponents, or locking politics down to ensure that they reign forever.

And people who do that sort of thing lose the protecting cloak of legitimacy (though they will try to cling to it). If norms don’t protect their opponents, what’s the argument for not seizing power by force and stringing them up? The paper walls of court-packing and state-adding are no protection against the universal political solvent, force.

Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took Rome because his political opponents were going to subject him to sham trials and probably take his life. The last residuum of the old Republic couldn’t stop him, and Rome became a less lawful place. …

Just a few election cycles ago, Mohammed Abdulrahman El-Sayed and James Talarico would have been utterly unelectable. Now they’re winning candidates. In this world, much conventional wisdom based on politics in the old world is no longer valid.