On trusting the process after it's openly failed
More of an emotional than analytical piece but sometimes you need that, but still a well-written version of the anti-institutionalist manifesto, namely:
The legitimacy crisis is that our institutions are illegitimate
It ain’t a PR problem, and the problem with the Supreme Court is not its individual members, but its very existence.
Its an assessment I agree with, but still all the anti-institutionalists out there I find hard to coalition with, because their *answer* to the Problem of Governance is always ‘democracy’. If elections finally delivered what 51% of the population wanted, the resulting agenda would fix sclerosis and push forward positive change. I absolutely agree that it would be better than the status quo, but as I have said elsewhere I am extremely far from confident that it would fix much at all. I value governing systems purely instrumentally, and the ‘results’ of More Democracy in other countries is...meh? Better than this, sure. But its not, yet, the answer.
(The answer is obviously not ~dictatorship uwu~ to clarify for the trad specters out there. Just that the problem of governance isn’t captured by a univariate democracy sliding scale)
