The influence of the Heritage Foundation and the agenda of white, Christian nationalists has been behind the last three Supreme Court appointments made by a Republican President. All three of Trump's appointees were on their list at some point, and it was a favor he returned to them in exchange for their support at the ballot box. And all three of them, in their testimony before Congress, as they campaigned to be confirmed, lied.

Well, deception and dishonesty is a core value of white, Christian nationalists, and of Trump. And it is also a core value of six of the nine members of the Supreme Court.

But that's exactly what the Christian nationalists want. They don't want a government of, by, and for the people, and they certainly don't want one that represents the will of the people. They are setting it up to be their tool for control. And the Supreme Court, according to one of their chief prophets who advocated for Republicans to make the most radical, unconstitutional judicial appointments they could find, Rush Limbaugh, saw this as the way to get around the dilemna they face when it comes to elections, which they lose as often as they win.

So why, when the opportunity presented itself, in 2020, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, did they not show some political savvy, and exhibit some bold risk taking in their politics that would have prevented the nightmare we are now forced to endure from occurring? The power was there to amend the judiciary act, create five, or six, or eight, new seats on the Supreme Court, and give those appointments to President Biden. Without playing politics, he could have appointed younger, more liberal justices who would outlast the current duds, and who would have, in short order, overturned Citizens United, the immunity ruling, saved Roe, and fast-tracked Trump's insurrection and documents theft trials into a verdict and prison time long before the 2024 election rolled around.

If it's not apparent, this is one of my chief frustrations with Democratic party leadership right now. They just don't seem to get it, that the Republicans are no longer interested in compromise, it is winner take all, and when they get the power, they are going to do things exactly like this, in order to make sure it can't be taken away while they turn the United States into a Christian nationalist dictatorship.

The Heritage Foundation and their Republican allies are now just six states away from their goal of calling a constitutional convention, and changing the constitution to get what they want, a billionaire-controlled oligarchy. Democrats don't even seem to be aware, in their individual, isolated, turf-protecting fund-raising appeals, that this is happening, or that efforts are underway to make sure Democrats don't get a mid-term advantage in the Congress, while the orange turd is still in the White House.

And most Americans won't take this seriously.