David Rothkopf: The Supreme Court Is Trying to Turn Back the Clock 200 Years

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Call it the Great Regression. In my latest column for @TheDailyBeast, I look at the many ways the Supreme Court and GOP leaders are undoing centuries of American progress...and what their campaign is going after next. Time to fight back.

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The Supreme Court Is Trying to Turn Back the Clock 200 Years
Thanks to America’s right wing, we’ve entered the Great Regression.
5:00 AM · Jun 26, 2022

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History may look back at the period in which we are living and call it the Great Regression. It is a time in which on issue after issue, we are seeing decades and sometimes centuries of progress reversed.

If the term regression feels too academic, we may just as easily call it the Great Leap Backwards. If it continues at its current pace, it may end up being known as the American Dark Ages… or worse, to borrow from another historical saga, the Decline and Fall of the United States.

We have seldom seen anything like this before in our country’s history. One example might be that in the wake of the Civil War, Reconstruction saw efforts throughout what had been Confederate states to, wherever possible, restore the old order and to once again put down newly freed Blacks in the South.

More recently, thanks to a concerted campaign by America’s right wing, sometimes with the help of centrists from both U.S. political parties, we have watched as a long list of the signature milestones of American social advancement in the post WWII era have been reversed, undone or blunted.

The Supreme Court, now one of the most active, pernicious agents of this period of anti-progress, demonstrated this again on Friday by, for the first time in history, stripping away a right that had been granted to the people, the right of a woman to control her own body. In so doing, they imposed a new burden, one that by and large American women had been freed from for half a century—that of forced birth.

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2. I think maybe Maine has the answer: ignore them...

https://democraticunderground.com/100216846458