From Dahlia Lithwick at Slate:

"We keep talking about an imperial court that is slowly but certainly constructing an imperial executive, but none of that can happen without the learned helplessness of an American public that was intended to be sovereign.”
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@CuriousMagpie But it's not learned helplessness.

We actively, helpfully elect the congresspeople who set the stage for all of this. And we reelect them because apparently we like it.

We are getting the government that we voted for. We should probably stop footing for them.

Yes, we keep talking about this supposed imperial Court, but that story is a distraction from the actual way the system works, I distraction from our votes for Congress.

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