Is Amy Barrett the final triumph of the Republicans?

KFour weeks after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral, President Donald Trump appointed a new Chief Justice. The Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett so quickly was not due to broad unanimity. On the contrary, the Republicans made no effort to give the appearance of bipartisanship. With 52 to 48 votes, they created a clear majority in court: six to three for the Conservatives on the Supreme Court. Republicans cheer blatantly, as if it were not a court, but a Council of State whose members always have the last word. Forever.

The fact that not only three of the nine chief justices, but about 200 of the 800 federal judges were appointed by Trump, is a campaign success for the president. It can be speculated if this brought him closer to his reelection; after all, the dispute also mobilized the other side. You can also look the other way around: With this record, Republicans can face defeat on November 3. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell openly admitted: “Much of what we have done over the past four years will sooner or later be overturned by elections,” he said. Against the overwhelming majority of the Supreme Court, however, “they will not be able to do anything for a long time.”

Coney Barrett now has a lot of time to make history, like Ginsburg, only under the opposite sign. By gradually restricting the right to abortion, for example, it could put its stamp on the nation. This would not make her an idol for most, but for many Americans. Despite all the outrage at Trump and his pioneers’ policy of deliberate division, this must not sink: the ideological contradictions in American society are not imaginary. Nor are they a defect per se. But they demand institutions that find compromises or at least organize a respectful coexistence. Little remains of that.

Late end of the Nixon era

In the Senate, minority rights were wiped out; Overwhelming givers demand a thousand percent supporters; Congressional districts are grotesquely designed to disempower voters, and the judiciary is divided into two camps. This is primarily the job of the Republicans.

They desperately crush democratic China because they find themselves facing defeat. This is not referring to Trump and November 3, but to the long-term decline of his party that gave Trump the space to take over in the first place. More precisely: the foreseeable end of the white (Christian) party in the country, invented by Nixon and consolidated by Reagan. America is becoming more and more colorful, more secular, more urban. In six of the last seven presidential elections, the Democrats got the most votes, even if the Republican won the electoral college.