Judge Michael Luttig – Susan Feathers

Today on Substack, specifically The Contrarians, Jennifer Rubin published this statement about the legacy press obfuscating fascist realities as politics:

The sanewashing of Republicans’ despotic orgy provides insight into how far astray billionaire-owned media has gone in its political coverage. Outrageous, frightful assaults on constitutional law and democratic values are treated as clever tactics. Treating a party that is no longer bound by fidelity to truth, rational discourse, or nonviolent political competition as indistinguishable from a party that adheres to democratic (small “d”) norms casts legacy media as enablers, not independent guardians of democracy and free discourse. ~ The Contrarians, by Jennifer Rubin

This statement was directed at the New York Times reporting on the recent Republican pre-midterm election “convention” over the weekend. I herald Rubin’s eagle eye in a time when discernment is an absolute necessity for citizens to navigate this particular “moment” in American history in the making: we could lose our democratic way of life with this one election.

Further, another person who is clear-eyed and well spoken, Judge Michael Luttig describes what is likely to happen after the Midterm election in January when newly elected representatives are seated (or not) in Congress:

January 3, 2027 – The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

His post was originally published in The New Republic. You can read or listen at this link. I am very grateful to The New Republic for making it possible for everyone to understand the insightful warning from such a respected conservative judge.

A Republic, if you can keep it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The divine right of kings is a lie; monarchy runs against God’s plans. ~ Thomas Paine, Common Sense.

“We have an opportunity to remake America and make it an example of freedom for the world; we should seize it. I shall conclude these remarks, with the following timely and well-intended hints. We ought to reflect, that there are three different ways by which an independancy may hereafter be effected; and that one of those three, will, one day or other, be the fate of America, viz. By the legal voice of the people in Congress; by a military power; or by a mob: It may not always happen that our soldiers are citizens, and the multitude a body of reasonable men; virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual. Should an independancy be brought about by the first of those means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest, purest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men, perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the events of a few months. The reflection is awful, and in this point of view, how trifling, how ridiculous, do the little paltry cavilings of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.

“Let’s unite on behalf of America and win our independence. ”

~ Common Sense, Thomas Paine.