The Hive Mind is having a rough couple of years. Trump is dismantling their government laundromat. He started with USAID, but the hammer has come down all across the Executive branch. DOGE is still the disease that keeps the fraudsters awake at night. Fewer headlines, but plenty of internal action.
ACT Blue is getting legal attacks from states, and the Feds are happy to collect details in lieu of something larger. The SPLC is probably toast, I mean, how convincing do you have to be with donors after they find out how much you spend funding hate groups that resulted in zero hate groups being exposed or shut down? They didn’t even scare/close any actual hate groups, forget the annoying BS about groups on the right they label as hate just ‘cuz.
Yes, the Media got free headlines to target political enemies, but SPLC’s reputation is descending to the Eric Swalwell level just as quickly. Weak defenses will give way to “we can’t have that anchor around our necks.”
The Globalist Industrial Complex is falling apart. Trump side-stepped the useless UN and started his own club. The Board of Peace. He has and can bypass the state department bureaucrats, what of them are left, to address scores of diplomatic issues, trade deals, peace deals, and even a war that is as much an attack on China and the Global oil cartel profiteers, as Iran.
Then there’s the courts. It’s getting harder and harder to get those District court injunctions to stick, and no matter how many leftist judges they round up, the only “sort of win” to date was the Tariff dashboard, and Team Trump hasn’t skipped a beat there. They still brought in trillions in foreign investment, onshored manufacturing, moved the needle on addressing supply chain and national defense weaknesses, and US Steel is re-opening a plant in the US.
Making America Great Again is not something you can do overnight, but the first 15 months have seen more progress in the right direction than most presidents achieve after four or eight years.
Another win? Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is bearing beautiful fruit. It is a low-profile win and not just because there were no protests, marches, or 24/7 outrage. If they noticed, the nuance went under-reported. Kennedy overturned the Lemon Test.
The Lemon test is a three-part legal standard established by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1971 case Lemon v. Kurtzman. It was designed to determine whether a law or government activity violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from establishing a religion.
The Lemon test was based on the presumption that the First Amendment actually implied Freedom from Religion, not Freedom of Religion. It was the shovel used to toss dirt on the coffin in which Lemon places Judeo-Christian faith. A new tradition that has, for forty years, driven America’s founding faith underground.
Kennedy punched a hole in the coffin and helped it crawl out of the grave. You may have heard that a federal court, citing Kennedy, ruled that it is not unconstitutional for a Texas school to display the Ten Commandments in a classroom. Any or all of them. How is this even possible?
First, Kennedy built on the “if it fits with the nation’s historic traditions” idea, which requires lower courts to consider 250 years of human behavior. Second, your feelings are irrelevant.
Under the new Kennedy rule, lower courts are told to ask whether a particular practice fits within the nation’s historical traditions, and whether it involves actual coercion. Not just whether some hypothetical “reasonable observer” might be ‘offended,’ or might see it as endorsement. In other words, mere exposure or offense is no longer enough to show an Establishment Clause violation under the Kennedy framework.
Courts have been directed to dismiss any case that doesn’t show a clear instance of government coercion. Being offended is not grounds for litigation. It has no standing. Why did it take so long to get here from there?
Imagine a world where that thinking trickles down into the culture as a whole? The Left’s grievance mongering would necessarily suffer. The fake notion of hate crimes even takes a kick in the pants. If feelings cannot be construed to infer harm, we evolve forward legally to a time culturally when sticks and stones might break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
Kids were taught this adage, nursery rhyme-style, to program their brains.
I’m rubber, you’re glue. The pen is mightier than the sword. It’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
This potential sea change, of course, raises a larger question. If you can’t litigate feelings, what does the Democratic Party run on?
