The Umpire Strikes Back

People as fucked up as Republicans tell you what they are and it usually means nothing. It usually means the opposite. So, they say they will 'call balls and strikes' and you might think they might be fair. Or try to be fair. Or preserve the pretense. 

No way. We're beyond that. And they have bigger ambitions than merely cheating. They long for the simpler days of white boys shagging balls with ice tea awaiting in the shade of some nice old oak trees. And fair maidens to serve them. 

Minstrelry, maybe, for their amusement. They want to go so far back into privilege and exclusion you don't have to cheat. Hence they'll tackle the 'administrative state,' to adopt another corrupted term with its baggage. The bureaucracy.

A viable government, we may say. They want to kill it, along with congressional intent and constitutional intelligibility. Fuck 'originalism.' Fuck precedent. Fuck everything, because they're so close to the goal now. The goal of authoritarianism.