• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s true, and probably some of the moralizing that justifies the current situation in the eyes of the right wing. They see it as “taking back” the court and doing the same thing that “left” was already doing.

    The American far right has always had an outsized voice among conservatives, going all the way back to Father Coughlin, who was sympathetic to Hitler and Mussolini. Even mainstream conservatives tended to consider the supreme court more or less immune to political manipulation, with decisions like Roe v Wade to be the exception.

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      4 months ago

      It’s entirely possible I’m only familiar with the far right, and not so much the average mainstream conservative. Which is a wild thing to think about my life, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.