In my opinion, this video has more insightful observations than Carter has Little Liver Pills.
Watch it if you’re interested in understanding what is actually going on.
David French Channels Dante
And another useful source: yesterday, David French gave us a highly informative tour of the hellscape that is the MAGA mind. Along with that, he also offered thought-provoking historical precedents for our current state of affairs. David French (N.Y. Times): What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror.
And now some thoughts from me, your humble ink-stained scrivener.
The Supreme Court’s Role in 2026 as the Joker in the Deck and Potential Savior of Donald Trump—from the Perils Posed by Donald Trump
In the video above, Rick Wilson expounds on the consequences of Trump’s erratic and disastrous action regarding his key political issues, immigration and tariffs. But he doesn’t address how the Supreme Court, if it so chooses, could intervene in ways that would help to save Trump’s bacon by helping to save him from himself.
Back on January 15 I wrote Waiting for the Supreme Court Decision on the Tariffs. We’re still waiting, and I stand by what I wrote in that post.
Likewise, the Court, if it so chooses, can rein in Trump’s due process violations in connection with its mass deportation project.
Apart from the fact that requiring due process will help to save the constitutional republic, it would also, once again, help to save Trump politically from himself. Essentially, for the reasons that Rick Wilson laid out in the video.
And, on a related topic, this morning George Will gets an honorable mention for his WaPo op-ed, With this decision, the Supreme Court can and should rein Trump in: A pending landmark ruling will address the president’s power to fire within the executive branch. George has spoken with some constitutional law scholars, mulled over their views, and now, speaking with his accustomed magisterial tone of voice, pronounces ex cathedra that the Supreme Court ought to rein in Trump by rejecting the “unitary executive” theory of constitutional interpretation.
Delusions—and Delusions About Delusions
Trump’s mental problems are myriad: sociopathy, constant lying coupled with a total inability to keep his lies straight, an inability to plan, and, among others, a grievously limited political skill set.
In this witch’s brew of mental illnesses, we tend to discount the signal importance of delusional thinking. For example, Trump really thinks that he can bend the courts to his will in the same way that he has bent the Justice Department and the FBI to his will.
He should have learned his lesson in 2020, when the courts universally rejected his stolen election delusion.
But he did not learn his less, because he is delusional.
Now, once again, he is ordering his prosecutors to comply with his delusions by initiating a slew of utterly bogus criminal cases.
The consequences of the inevitable failure of that delusion will be yet another joker in the deck as we continue our hellish journey through 2026.
Facing MAGA 