I can already see some readers shaking their heads, pens poised: “Rothschild is exaggerating—what a woke idiot.” These are the same people who dismissed my articles on book banning, or insisted, “all those states are doing is protecting children.” They are the same people who trusted Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett when each swore they wouldn’t touch Roe v. Wade.
They are the same people scattered among every minority, whose self-hatred runs so deep that they betray their own community.
History remembers. You may not.
You might remember Clarence Thomas. If you’re too young to recall the Anita Hill hearings in 1991—when she testified he put pubic hairs in her Coke can—then all you need to know is this: from the bench, Thomas has wreaked havoc. Black America knows him through his rulings. He is married to Ginni Thomas, the hardline MAGA activist. Both have long sought to undo same-sex marriage, and Thomas went further in 2015 than Roberts and Scalia, writing his own personal dissent beyond the court’s dissent against Obergefell v. Hodges.
The Court is watching. And it is patient.
Next year, the Kim Davis appeal WILL be the vehicle that destroys marriage equality. If you think I’m wrong, you underestimate a packed Supreme Court.
Remember: Loving v. Virginia, striking down bans on interracial marriage, came eighty-four years after the Court first upheld those bans. This is history repeating itself. Roe fell because we underestimated the Court. Book bans spread because we stayed quiet. And now, the right to marry freely may be gone. Protests won’t stop it.
Silence is DEATH. Inaction is CONSET.
To my queer friends: Donald Trump’s favorite Village People song, YMCA, has been replaced for 2026. His $200 million White House ballroom, built for 90,000 supporters, now has a new anthem: “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.”
Tear down the mountains
Yell, scream, and shout like you can
say what you want
I’m not walking out
Stop all the rivers Push, strike and kill I’m not gonna leave
There’s no way I will
And I am telling you I’m not going
That is the song from Dreamgirls hesang in the limo last week with Putin. He is serious. Trump is preparing to pull a Putin—staying for a third, fourth, or even fifth term. He militarized the capital, replaced the police with the National Guard. He isn’t leaving. You didn’t think he would gold-plate the Oval Office, pave over Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden, and spend hundreds of millions on a White House ballroom to be voted out of office Nov. 7th, 2028.
The stage is set. The actors are ready.
Without massive voter turnout in the midterms and without billionaires like David Geffen, the producer of Dream Girls, getting off their yachts and stepping in, democracy will be gone. The Supreme Court has granted Trump total immunity. We have only one chance: invest in every winnable midterm race. If we fail to collar Trump on November 3, 2026, life as we know it will end. He is testing our resolve. The clock is ticking.
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The Supreme Court cannot pass law. Californians voted against gay marriage in 2008, and Democrats, just like with Prop 187, completely destroyed the democratic process to shove an agenda down our throats. And now we’re told to celebrate you having degenerate Pride Parades where some really disgusting shit has gone down or we’re bigots.
And as far as you fools thinking you’ve been taking the moral high ground, since when? I dare you to tell me, honestly, truthfully, since when. I’ll wait, and I’ll rebut with receipts.
If this happens, then it’s time to end inter-racial marriage. I am NOT “going high” as they sink lower and lower.
Don’t do the Nazis any favors! Be an ally!
If Marriage Equality gets reversed, then I support an attack on Loving v Virginia using the exact same rationale. Let’s see how much Uncle Tom(as) likes that scenario playing out against HIS marriage. File under: “All is Fair in Love and War.”
The motto is: “Hang together” against the common enemy. Not “Hang Each Other” to do them a favor!
If gay marriage goes away it will be because of the obnoxious transgender activists who pushed this issue to such a bizarre extreme.
Disagree; I think that woman Kim Davis was biding her time to stage a “comeback” – when both the Presidency and the Court would align along her lines of thinking.
This bigot has been married FOUR TIMES and has the audacity to judge my marriage.
“The extreme right has been bankrolling her legal fees and orchestrating this strategy for years.”public information they plan well
Pack it in, folks! The party is over. Leave now while you still can.
No books were banned but merely removed from public schools where they were not age-appropriate or the content was sexually provocative.
I could comment on just about everything else you said here but I will leave it at that.
Permanently “Removed” from schools is synonymous with “Banned” in those schools. This is not’Alice in Wonderland’!
“Age appropriate” is the operative term here!
Or maybe you’re one of those radicals who think a six year old should have the same exposure to material intended for adults.
“I would endeavor to engage you on your level, but the descent would be unacceptably precipitous—akin to the snap of an elevator cable. Since genuine discourse presumes reason as common ground, I can only acknowledge your perspective, which clings to illusion like the ostrich in sand”
No, you and I would not do well together on most any topic. Angry pseudo-intellectuals are not a lot of fun to hang out with.
You are correct. These people are promoting losing issues. Another example of an 80/20 issue in the country.
🎯🎯🎯 Mr. Rothschild is one hundred percent correct I’m afraid. I have come to the very same conclusions. Unless the citizens of the United States wake up and become involved in numbers that dwarf the Obama wave of 2008, we will be left with rapist/pedophile- in-chief in 2028. That Trump is now taking aim at redistricting, ActBlue, and localized municipal government, i.e. taking over DC, targeting Chicago and New York next. (He was practicing in Los Angeles, I guarantee you he’s not done here – right now he’s letting ICE do the work). Trump wants to squash and trample. And… Read more »
Is it time for Progressives to foster our own “conspiracy theory” to oppose Trump? There already is extant a conspiracy theory that Hitler survived WWII (according to FBI files!), land that he even targeted America to restore a future Nazi empire. NeoNazis are embedded today in our armed forces and police departments, apparently. Does that dead hand of the past guide the current live hand of Donald Trump? America remains historically vulnerable to Nazi “race” hatred (just substitute “Negro” for “Jew”). The American Revolution was grounded in democracy, but American History is tied to autocrats in politics and economics, and… Read more »
Perhaps the real reason Trump has escaped the fates of JFK, RFK, and MLK of violent political assassination has something to do with this conspiracy theory that Hitler transplanted Nazism to American shores.
After the 2024 MAGA election win (when millions of Democratic voters mysteriously disappeared from the voting booth), I fear that no single future election will reverse the American march to dictatorship. The precedents have already been set. Congress has clearly ceded its powers, including its fundamental power of the purse, to the President, so that he can unilaterally overrule any congressionally-approved spending on programs and policies that he disagrees with. The Supreme Court does not appear poised to intervene. Indeed, the Court has created a presidential immunity out of whole cloth which cloaks him in Kingly powers (possibly allowing him… Read more »
Lol, “disappeared from the voting booth.” So they went into the booths and never came out? Have the been found yet? What a clown comment.
Like Roe, the Court bypassed the legislative process to establish a new national policy. While such judicial moves may advance progressive causes in the short term, they expose themselves to reversal when reviewed by a less activist Court. I agree that Dobbs opened the door to revisiting Obergefell.
I don’t recall D Party members of Congress tabling a bill enact a law. Just like Roe…Obergefell was/is on shaky legal ground but politicians seem uninterested in the legislative process. The SC is just doing their job. If there’s blame to be assigned it should be with Congress.
The present Supreme Court is not doing its job. It has been using the shadow docket to reverse rulings or establish new rules with neither full oral argument presented in open court nor detailed written opinions. This is a dangerous method of avoiding responsibility while creating a kind of vague guidance that lets Trump’s corrupt administration interpret decisions in whatever way they believe will justify their claims that Trump is acting legally. (And please don’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.)
Obergefell v. Hodges was based on very similar legal theory as Loving v. Virginia involving Due Process & Equal Protection Clauses of the 14th Amendment. Both cases established that state bans on marriage based on personal characteristics like race in Loving & same-sex status in Obergefell violate these clauses. While Roe v. Wade also involves a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment, it was based on the right to privacy under the Due Process Clause, not the Equal Protection Clause, making it slightly different from the other 2 cases. With Roe v. Wade overturned the legal precedents of Obergefell v. Hodges & Loving v. Virginia are seriously in… Read more »
Cy, Thank you for your comment—I truly appreciate it. In general, I am writing these articles as alarm bells, intended to awaken a community that does not yet fully grasp the damage a “packed” Court can inflict. The recent decision granting Trump total immunity is, in effect, the equivalent of handing a serial offender an invisibility cloak. I referenced Roe only as a simple, accessible example. As you know, a deliberately stacked Court was never the intention of the Founding Fathers, and this present Court is arguably even more unbalanced than the Taney Court. The real danger ahead is profound. It will… Read more »
How was the court stacked exactly? The Senate was controlled by the Republicans…….and they didn’t have the votes for Garland. All the current SC members were nominated by the executive and confirmed by the Senate. Everything is working as intended…..you just don’t like the results.
“I would gladly meet you on your level, but the plunge would be far too abrupt for me—rather like the sudden snap of an elevator cable. Debate requires at least a foundation of understanding, and in its absence, I can only thank you for sharing your thoughts.”
LOL. You can’t support anything you wrote. Just an emotional diatribe.
“and they didn’t have the votes for Garland. “
Wrong. Mitch Mcconnell wouldn’t even let Garland be put up for a vote. Obama was president and they should have let the senate have a chance to vote on his nominee. They stole a seat.
Because he can’t support his claims.
Does this apply to Gavin Newsom?
The left would love to increase the number of justices so they can pack the court, but that wouldn’t be damaging, right?
Thanks for the analysis, Cy. Question. If the Supreme Court proceeds to eliminate gay marriage, how would that affect California? Would California be allowed to keep gay marriages?
Probably, unless Congress passes a national law nullifying state laws to the contrary.
Well written vital call to action to vote in the midterms! Joel lays it all out for us. We need to understand the importance of this time in history.
Even if future exercise of the vote should prove futile in practice or effect, it must be attempted as a civic and symbolic duty. And it might even work, despite an anti-democratic President, Congress and Court.