Why the cynicism?

John’s back in the country and hasn’t missed a thing — unless you count the ongoing election interference and business fraud [hush money] case in which the Donald is a defendant in New York. Or the petulance of Samuel Alito showing solidarity with January 6 insurrectionists by displaying an upside down flag at his house and blaming his wife when he was called on it. Or the potentially drunken dispute in the House Oversight Committee when Marjorie Taylor-Greene lobbed a racist insult at Jasmine Crockett of Texas about the latter’s personal appearance, when the brilliant alliteration, “bleach blonde bad built butch body”, was born.Headlines and bad conduct by representatives and Supreme Court justices aside, we delve into the ethics of SCOTUS (or lack thereof) and the inconsistencies in some of the justices’ philosophies. John asks the question of what the United States would look like today if we stopped crashing from one guardrail to the other, making monumental steps forward in science, technology, race relations, and law before inevitably having the angry backlash we seem to do and undoing so much of the progress we had made in the first place. And we dig into why cynicism is such a powerful tool for corrupt officials and would-be autocrats, like the man we’re all tired of talking about.Great conversation - listen now!#MTG #AOC #JasmineCrockett #Alito #Thomas #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ethics #canonsofinterpretation #corruption #transparency This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianhanley.substack.com