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Slouching towards Bethlehem [1]
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Date: 2025-02-03
It’s clear that Trump and his minions will treat the Judicial Branch just as they have treated Congress—cooperate when convenient, ignore or attack otherwise. Already today, reports indicate that various grant recipients remain unable to access funds awarded through an online portal, despite Judge AliKhan’s order delaying Trump’s freeze.
Andrew Jackson famously (and likely apocryphally) is said to have remarked about the Supreme Court: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” The case in question affirmed the federal government’s constitutional authority to limit Georgia’s actions against the Cherokee Nation. By refusing to enforce the ruling, Jackson effectively allowed Georgia to impose its own laws, suspending Cherokee rights under the Constitution.
Looking ahead, I fully expect some state governments to exploit this precedent, accelerating their transformation into strongholds of Christian Nationalism. This is not only a dire threat to anyone who does not conform to their ideology but also a stark reminder of why Democrats must stand firmly with those who will inevitably face ruthless persecution.
The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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