in 2025 are conservatives owed this assumption of good faith? they want unrestrained power for themselves and constraints for everyone else

on matters like this, as I understand it, courts are required to assume any government's good faith public purpose, my point is that in this case Ford et al. failed to clear even that lowest of bars and conservatives should take the L

right sure in the context of how courts function that is how these questions are evaluated, but any ideological conservatives braying to notwithstand the issue away, they’re not interested in jurisprudence they have power & they want to use it in petty ways to punish their inferiors the end

like i feel like you and aaron are kind of responding to a good faith debate in the marketplace of ideas but narrowly on the substance of this issue in particular, and broadly throughout the conservative movement at large, that time is past it’s all about power for its own sake

a story: when Ford took over in 2018 the PCs immediately threw out previous norms of civility & went out of their way to humiliate critics and opposition at the time i thought: it’s like they expect they will govern forever & will never not be in power & that vibe matches a lot of their decisions