Democrats gave up fighting SARS-CoV-2. It is just the flu now. We are now being told that we have to live with it. Get back to work, Jack.

The Supreme Court saw the signs. They knew we were going to give up fighting the virus. And as an added bonus, they weakened the regulatory authority of OSHA.

The Spreme Court’s mission, under it’s right wing majority, is to dismantle Federal regulatory agencies. The regulatory state was created by the Democratic Party, with overwhelming popular support. The New Deal and the Second World War made the creation of such a state an obvious necessity. If they and the GOP succeed, as I think they will, the Federal government would fit comfortably within the confines of Calvin Coolidge's policy, circa 1925. He once said that if the U.S. government were to go out of existence, the average citizen would only miss the mail. For this backward Republican majority, the repeal of the twentieth century seems to be the goal. Regulation of capitalism, and the protections of civil liberties, would once again be left to the tender mercies of the states. For the white and rich, this might mean little. For the vast majority of the country, the results will be catastrophic, just as failure to snuff-out the pandemic has been catastrophic.

Uncle Tim contributed to this post.