Let's Not Normalize Ginni and Clarence

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Steven Beschloss
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“If your wife were aggressively trying to overthrow the government while you’re serving on the Supreme Court, wouldn’t you tell her to cut it out…unless you support that effort?”

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Let's Not Normalize Ginni and Clarence
The need for ethics on the Supreme Court, especially when a spouse is seeking to abet the overthrow of a democratically elected government, could not be more obvious
8:13 AM · Mar 28, 2022

https://america.substack.com/p/lets-not-normalize-ginni-and-clarence


We humans are remarkably adaptable creatures. It’s amazing what we can learn to live with—conditions of war and violence, sadistic sociopaths and psychopaths who angle themselves into elected office to run countries, self-appointed individuals bent on exploiting their access to power to break the trajectory toward an inclusive, pluralistic, democratic future.

Days after the 2016 election I tweeted the following, a comment that I kept pinned at the top of my feed for the next four years. I worried what normalizing a malignant narcissist and demagogue would lead to—and hoped that the majority of Americans could (with constant effort) hold onto the sense of right and wrong, differentiate truth from lies, and help ensure the survival of democracy and human decency.

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Steven Beschloss
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@DavidCornDC @realDonaldTrump The normal human instinct is to adapt to reality. It will take constant vigilance to avoid normalizing Trump.
November 17th 2016

As we know, many have normalized, including the millions of Americans who think the deadly insurrection and coup attempt was “no big deal” and remain convinced that Joe Biden is not the legitimately elected president and Donald Trump should be re-installed. It’s hard to overstate what the repetition of lies and the constant effort to degrade people’s capacity to know the truth can achieve.

All this has been on my mind since learning about the efforts of Virginia “Ginni” Thomas—the conspiracy-minded wife of a Supreme Court Justice and an anti-democratic, “conservative” activist—to exploit her access to power and support Trump’s planned overthrow of a democratically elected government.

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3. "Keep my wife's name out of your f---g mouth!"