“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote. The Democrats might repeat Emerson’s motto, but they go one better. They eschew all forms of consistency—except one. Today, since the Supreme Court just ruled against Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs, the Dems are in a festive mood and are happy to praise the Court. No worries, Trump has recourse to many other statutes to pursue his economic policies. That was something the Left began to realize by Friday afternoon, when Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set forth their plans for a workaround. Gloom and then anger gripped the liberal talking heads as they realized that their promised victory over Trump was evaporating before their very eyes.
But what I want to call attention to here is the fickleness of the Left’s attitude toward the Court. It was not so long ago, when the Supreme Court repeatedly ruled in favor of Trump, that the Dems talked darkly about packing the Court and setting term limits for justices and otherwise made their displeasure known. Remember Chuck Schumer pontificating from the steps of the Court? “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” he said. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Threat, or warning?
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