The Conservative Punditry No Longer Believes In Democracy

The Republican rejection of the standards of our democracy now extends into the supposedly thoughtful conservative punditry. In response to the latest Senator to jump on the bandwagon that no Democratic nominee to the Supreme Court should ever be confirmed,  Jamelle Bouie tweeted “An explicit statement that Democratic presidents are inherently illegitimate”. Ross Douthat, the conservative former op-ed columnist for that liberal bastion (not), the New York Times, tweeted back, “I think it’s more a statement that current liberal judicial theory is inherently illegitimate.” Please just let that sink in for a moment. Thankfully, Douthat still apparently believes that not every Democratic president is, de facto, illegitimate. But liberal judicial theory is, by definition, illegitimate. We all should know that the end of an independent judiciary is the first step on the path to dictatorship and the end of democracy.

(hat tip to Kevin Drum for this one)