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Really enjoyed this in two respects:

The first, the meta aspect. Every single conservative in the land can angrily denounce "activist judges" or "red tape" or, more recently, "radical DAs." But you look at them and say: well, those are generally enacted by fiat, so just get people into those positions and it's all reversible. They look at you like they have two heads. It should be obvious: Philadelphia hasn't legalized murder. San Francisco hasn't legalized drugs, nor even shoplifting. It's all bureaucracy, it's all "pen and phone", and what can be done or undone with the pen can be reversed. It's incredible how few conservatives believe this to be an option: faced with the might of the administrative state, they either lay down and die or quixotically insist on some kind of legislative victory that's neither required nor realistic.

The second, the substance of civil rights law itself. It would indeed be a huge victory - and one that I think can be achieved - if quotas via the back door were in bold capital letters made illegal. If this country wants to have racial quotas at work, the Left should be made to do the hard work of codifying it in law, which would quite possibly involve a constitutional amendment.

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Amazing stuff, it's unreal how many conservatives don't realize it's simply illegal for Anheuser-Busch (or anyone else) to do anything they want. I don't know how we make this standard knowledge in the vast red-state blob.

What drives me nuts is this should be good news to cons, since "we have friends in high places, they just don't like being sued for millions of dollars" is more workable than "everyone in power hates us"!

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