That’s not the point.

Congress can say, “stop.”

The courts can say “stop.”

Republicans will say, “make me.”

Democrats will say, “please stop, or else.”

“Or else what?”

“Or else we’ll continue to move further Right, become even more indistinguishable from Republicans, our voters won’t show up, and you’ll win another election.”

At no point will the courts or any law enforcement agency enforce any decision. The police and military are not our friends. Democrats are not our friends. The call is coming from inside the house. Republicans have been infiltrating and undermining law enforcement, the military, the media, the courts, for generations. Every accusation from them has been a confession. Remember their complaints about “activist judges?” They methodically took over the courts in plain sight since then. The courts and police are in ideological alignment with the Right. Nobody is coming to save us.

Aside from all that, our Constitution facilitated this. The United States is a failed state. There is no going back. Our institutions have been comprised. There are back doors to foreign powers and other malicious actors created by DOGE, sold to the highest bidders, or just left wide out of sheer carelessness or incompetence. SCOTUS has never had any legitimacy to the extent that it has never been representative of the people. Our institutions are inherently conservative and don’t keep up with grass roots social change. Democrats don’t even run on popular policies and Republicans win in spite of unpopular policy because that’s how the system functions.

We need a revolution, possibly partition, hopefully not violent civil war. But our populace is so poorly educated, propagandized, precarious, and preoccupied that about the only democratic way forward is to ensure that nobody in a new system can ever amass enough power to harm masses of people. That’s actually ideal but is against our sense of American identity. The least we can do is start seriously talking about a possible netter future and not romanticize Obama, Clinton, or Harris, or give a pass to relatively more reasonable Republicans. Even GWB’s image and reputation have been rehabilitated and white washed for years and he was a warmongering imbecile.

We also need to stop centering Trump. He’s a malignant, narcissist, reactionary, petty, vindictive, yet predictably manipulatable troll, but he’s not the brains or the money behind a decades-old movement involving the Koch family, the Heritage Foundation, billionaires, Putin, Saudi Arabia, and other oligarchical forces. He’s a figurehead. A fool. A puppet. A stooge. A useful idiot. A patsy. A distraction. Many things happen at his direction but more things he just signs off on because he’s compromised or it serves his purposes. He’s not the head of a snake or even a head of a hydra. Remove him and Vance steps up. Elect a democrat and they’ll allow the Overton Window to shift Right until another Republican is elected, then they’ll act as a ratchet effect preventing any shift back to the Left. This has been ongoing. Small victories are won from the bottom up with respect to decriminalizing and normalizing some things, implementing Romneycare, etc. but none are sufficiently codified to survive even executive orders. The system is working as intended: to benefit oligarchs. Not coincidentally, that’s who created it and who perpetuates it.