Terminating America with extreme prejudice

Following up on Scott’s post, the screeching from the scream machine about the birthright citizenship decision just illustrates how utterly radicalized the American right wing has become. (That a reactionary movement cannot be genuinely revolutionary is one of those category errors to which the practitioners of Whig history are prone.)

In case you don’t want to get out of the boat, and I don’t blame you, The Federalist’s Sean Davis’s bright ideas include required sterilization of all foreign visitors, or — the more moderate and sensible option — denying entry to all women.

The very idea of questioning birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment had been deader than Marley, either Jacob or Bob, for more than 130 years, which isn’t surprising given that the amendment establishes it in unambiguous language. Even the 180 proof racist nativism of 19th century federal judges didn’t deny this reality.

But nothing — absolutely nothing — is ever good enough or off the table for our own racist nativism, which has managed to achieve escape velocity from all social and legal reality, as it marinates in a poisonous atmosphere of resentment and hatred.

That these people can’t even see that the Supreme Court is the very best friend right wing reaction has ever had in this country — and not merely at present but for about 93% of that ignominious institution’s existence — is a testament to how the reactionary right in this country can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, doesn’t feel remorse or pity or fear, and absolutely will not stop, ever, until anything like cultural pluralism, religious and intellectual liberty, and even any semblance of liberal democracy in America, are dead.