i do think the supreme court is very funny because liberal hegemony exerts tremendous ideological pressure to frame all political struggle outside its narrowly prescribed limits illegitimate and impossible but then when liberals want to effect (liberal!) change firmly within those limits they also just simply can’t. like the crushing force of ideological domination telling everyone ‘you can only do what’s possible within the framework of the US bourgeois republic’ all the time and then when someone who has fully bought into that framing is like 'well what if we packed the court that’s literally fully within all the laws and framework of the capitalist liberal order’ theyre like 'lol lmao fuck no’ like you gotta laugh
The darkly funny thing about it is that packing the court is never a serious suggestion. Roosevelt used the threat to get his way, actually following through on it would be a recipe for an exponentially expanding and increasingly illegitimate judicary. From the perspective of US liberals, bad idea, yet the threat has historically gotten them results and would still work fine. But the people in charge of the liberal wing of US establishment politics refuse to even put the threat on the table. It’s like your master tenant has a sign outside saying “ATTENTION: WE ARE UNARMED AND OUR LOCKS DON’T WORK” and your shit keeps getting jacked and every time you ask him to take the sign down he buys a bigger one, and patiently explains it’s the principle of the thing
