There is no justice...... RBG RIP!

[Anomalocaris]

For better or worse, the right has sold their principles in exchange for power.  The left hasn't, and doesn't need to do so.  That difference, though, will serve as a check against holding Republicans accountable and playing politics in the same way.  That likely means another Trump SCOTUS justice, and no real retaliation.  I think that, followed by flipping the senate, is the best that can be hoped for.  If we sell out our principles, we'll have lost something irreplaceable.  Power is no substitute for principles.  Republicans have made that bargain because they really have no other choice.

I think the left most certainly has also sold out a good deal of its principles, or at least what it said were its principles in order to gain the following of certain segments.  what it has not sold out is a lackadaisical approach to the serious and increasingly winner take all form of mortal political combat.   the reason it has not sold this out is not principle, or strategy, but lassitude, and self-delusion about the caliber of the american electoral and unthinking faith in some mythical recouperative power of the american institution.

principle in front of power, but without power,  is fantasy. 

even in cases where it appears principle triumphed over power,  look more closely.   The power that was defeated was first defeated by some other power, it was that circumstance which  allowed principle to appear to defeated it.

principle never defeated a power that wasn’t already defeated.