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  • The regressive right has been pushing back against progress, playing the long game, since the civil rights era. Fifty years or more.

    It seems to me their power has only grown since then. They've stacked courts, gerrymandered the shit out of many places, and managed to get Bush and Trump elected.

    If regressive politics is in its death throes, how did Republicans gain control of the Senate? How is it that so many anti LGBTQ laws have been passed in* so many states? How is it so many boards of education have been taken over by the right?

    If the right is almost done how did they have the power to overturn Roe v Wade? How did we end up with the Shelby County v Holder decision?

    Conservative* regressivism and the bigotry that undergirds it is a fact of human nature. Don't be naive and think we will be done with it so easily.

    And pay attention to who is exercising power to enact their visions. That should disabuse you of any false hope that the fight against regressivism is over.