Focused Anger

Gene Dionne at the Washington Post published an excellent column over the weekend (link here) about how Trump opponents shouldn't just give up in anger now that Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in at the Supreme Court.

That anger must be focused into action. Notwithstanding that a majority of Americans are not conservatives nor do they support the conservative agenda, a President who lost the popular vote by nearly three million was able to nominate a highly partisan justice who was then confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country's population.

As a result, they pulled off a legal coup. In response, Trump opponents need to push back. The first way to do that is to flip the House and, hopefully, the Senate too in this year's midterms. If one chamber turns, that means the potential for public hearings on both Kavanaugh and Trump.

It also means, after the 2020 election, the Supreme Court could be enlarged to cancel out the conservative majority rigged by Trump and his supporters. There is certainly a legal precedent -- the number of justices has changed seven times in the history of this country.

Make no mistake about it, Trump and his supporters won the battle with Kavanaugh's confirmation. But as history has often shown us, winning a battle doesn't mean you win the war. Trump opponents need to play the long game on this.