I’ve often written about or noted how Democratic Party liberals tend to go after their own Presidents in primaries, or stay home when they don’t like something their party does. Then they spend the next few years shocked about how the GOP seems to be taking over the courts more and more, seems to get a bigger foothold in controlling the Supreme Court, gets its members entrenched in the democracy and how Republican office holders on the national and state levels know how to use (some will say abuse) power when they get it — political power and the use of an office to dominate a narrative.
Is it about to happen again? It sounds that way.
Also, re-read this column.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.