If You Think Impeaching Trump Will Rally His Supporters, You Don't Understand The Authoritarian Mind

[Hortensis]

106. Wondering what you were seeing, I just checked her

twitter, and she really does sound grim. Tweet after tweet on big signs of rising authoritarianism. And, of course, as a dual-citizenship Russian-American, gay, female, Jewish, journalist and adoptive mother, a lot of it has to be personal. She is eminently persecutable.

The Dread of Waiting for the Supreme Court to Rule on L.G.B.T. Rights

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear three cases that seek to determine whether existing federal law bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Among L.G.B.T. activists and advocates, one could sense something like a deep intake of breath, of the sort one makes when a fragile object is starting to tumble off a shelf across the room. You know it’s going to shatter, you are too far away to try to catch it, and you watch, helplessly, its interminable path to catastrophe.

They mostly expect nothing but bad from this Supreme Court as appeals for protection from the wave of renewed legalized persecution in many states arrives.