All Our Structural Problem: "My Job Is Done Here." Don McGahn's Kavanaugh Project

[ancianita]

The paid political tools of THE corporate party, supported by the forty-year foundation of Koch think tanks, foundations and media work, will soon have completed the following.

Restructure media.
Restructure federal voting via the FEC.
Restructure state voting via ALEC, gerrymandering, roll purges.
Restructure all federal courts.
Install a pro-corporate president.

What remains to be done:

Establish corporate legal dominance through courts.

Convene a constitutional convention and create the linchpin clause of the congressional supermajority vote for all legislation.

The death of majority democracy will take care of itself.

Which has been Charles Koch's and the deceased James M. Buchanan's goal since the 70's.


https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23585673/voter-suppression-republican-brett-kavanaugh-don-mcgahn/

... party-wide commitment to an assault on the franchise can be encompassed by the three Supreme Court decisions — Citizens United, Shelby County, and McCutcheon — through which the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement were shredded right along with ... campaign-finance laws. We traded John Lewis for the Koch Brothers.

Which is where Don McGahn came in. He was the vehicle through which this strategy was implemented at the FEC. McGahn's primary task at the FEC was to break down the country's system of elections.

McGahn's portfolio in the White House includes sliding judicial nominees through the process—a job Brett Kavanaugh once held ...

The entire Republican project ever since the Florida burglary of 2000—in which Kavanaugh was an accessory after the fact—has been to find a way to hang onto power while the party itself is shrinking down to an old, white, Southern base.

Every institution of government that the Republicans have controlled for nearly 20 years has been tasked with this, and now they pretty much control all of them, at least until the first week of November.

Brett Kavanaugh has been at the center of those efforts. So has Don McGahn. This is the part of the tale that is not about the president* at all.

Howard Dean said, last time I saw him speak: "Politics is war."

We have been out-strategized.

We need to shift strategy.

If anyone has any thoughts on strategy shifts, we need to read them on DU.

[ancianita]

1. Our strategy can't be solely reactive, but it can block theirs after 2020. I'm just not sure

what to try beyond constant massive voter turnout and a unified party governance vision.