There’s also a tendency, among those persuaded by particular philosophies of governance, to ignore decades of electoral strategy which has married control over

There’s also a tendency, among those persuaded by particular philosophies of governance, to ignore decades of electoral strategy which has married control over the courts with political priorities where these harms are exactly the desired outcomes. There’s probably a case to be made that the model of governance and the specific political harms are more intrinsically linked than mere strategy. But putting that aside… conservatives writ large are all too eager to abandon that model of governance when it doesn’t have the desired political effect. And it’s easy enough to imagine the conservative movement losing love for even this highly favorable court if certain high profile cases don’t go the way they expect.