Then there are the courts, of course, filled with so-called judges, who will delay some of Trump’s worst decrees for days, possibly weeks at a time! Eventually, of course, these so-called judges will need to answer to the Supreme Court, of course, which is about to be tipped back into complete subservience to the Republicans!

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Much is being made of Trump-nominee Neil Gorsuch’s comment that Trump’s verbal assault on the so-called judges is “disheartening” and “demoralizing.” But read the fine print in the soon-to-be-justice’s opinion. “Disheartening” and “demoralizing” do not carry the force of law. They do not carry the force of anything. Is His Honor Mr. Gorsuch withdrawing his name from consideration? No. Is he insisting, as he should have in the first place, that the prior nominee, Merrick Garland, get his fair hearing and up-or-down vote? No. After accepting his seat on the big bench, will his recollection of this dishearteningness and demoralizingability affect his behavior in any way? No. Because his “judicial philosophy” will compel him to side and keep siding with the right wing of the court, because he understands that that was why he was nominated in the first place. That part does not dishearten him, or demoralize him. That’s the good part.

And the other good part, is that “philosophy” demands that the court keep ruling to preserve the flooding of the democratic system with big money, because the founders really meant to say “money is speech” when they wrote down “freedom of speech.” And the good part about that is it creates a self-reinforcing loop of Republican power.

And where does that leave people to the left of Attila the Hun, who actually delivered more votes than Trump received, who would like to see some of their policy preferences delivered by the government that in theory represents them, too? Sorry. A wall has been built, all right, against any progressive thought, word or legislation, and there is no way into or out of this system. And, of course, we get to pay for it, too. The democracy has achieved stability, as the founders hoped, just without the democracy part now.