We change them. Either through the legal system and various court challenges, or by taking votes to change laws that no longer work or are no longer the prevailing view of the country.
Which is not what’s happening here.
Republicans have tried to change the law in all these ways. They lost. And that’s why Democrats are saying, um, guys, you challenged this a million ways and you failed to strike it down, so let it go.
That’s the critical distinction here. We have ways of changing laws and NONE OF THEM are this. Unless George Will is actually saying the Civil War was a good method of conflict resolution upon which the nation should model government going forward, in which case for God’s sake, will somebody get his meds under control?
And why the fuck was NPR interviewing this guy anyway? Did no one else answer the phone?
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