{"id":160330,"date":"2024-01-02T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160330"},"modified":"2024-01-02T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:20:44","slug":"111682207807957089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/02\/111682207807957089.html","title":{"rendered":"Catering to the torches and pitchforks encourages more torches and pitchforks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Snyder has a good piece here on the dangers involved in the &#8220;commentariat&#8221; pushing SCOTUS to a &#8220;pitchfork&#8221; ruling on Colorado &#8216;s pushing Trump off the ballot.\u00a0 By saying Colorado Supreme Court should be overruled because its ruling is &#8220;divisive&#8221; or will &#8220;inflame&#8221; the January 6th folk who were carrying around virtual torches and pitchforks, the politicos and pundits on both sides of the aisle would fundamentally weaken the rule of law &#8230; and simply encourage the folk waving pitchforks to wave them more, knowing they will get their way.<\/p>\n<p><a translate=\"no\" href=\"https:\/\/snyder.substack.com\/p\/the-pitchfork-ruling?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=310897&amp;post_id=140253222&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=tdmdr&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"ellipsis\">snyder.substack.com\/p\/the-pitc<\/span><span class=\"invisible\">hfork-ruling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dave1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snyder.substack.com\/p\/the-pitchfork-ruling?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=310897&amp;post_id=140253222&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=tdmdr&amp;utm_medium=email\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The Pitchfork Ruling\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1673424411758-de1d2e39852c?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzMnx8Y29uc3RpdHV0aW9ufGVufDB8fHx8MTcwNDEzMzAzNHww&amp;ixlib=rb-4.0.3&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">The Pitchfork Ruling<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">The Trap the Commentariat Sets for the Court<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">snyder.substack.com\/p\/the-pitchfork-ruling<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And weakening the rule of law out of fear doesn&#8217;t make anyone any safer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2313,715,2136,358,1071],"tags":[2173,2316],"class_list":["post-160330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toot","category-crime-punishment","category-elections-2024","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-jan6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43294,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/america-is-not-immune-to-the-torches-and-pitchforks.html","url_meta":{"origin":160330,"position":0},"title":"America is not immune to the torches and pitchforks","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jun-14 4:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"People have forgotten (and too few histories teach) about the social unrest in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- fought violently by the police, the Pinkerton, even the army, and largely assuaged only by the social programs (and abrupt poverty redistribution) of the Great Depression,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/its-getting-to-be-torches-and-pitchforks-time.html","url_meta":{"origin":160330,"position":1},"title":"It&#8217;s getting to be torches and pitchforks time &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Mar-09 3:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The finance industry really seems to have no idea of the level of animus being generated by their own actions amongst the general taxpaying citizenry. 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(I love the new \"Auto-RedEye\" feature for Picassa, for those pictures where you want the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133794,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/the-last-days-of-pompeii-beverly-hills-style.html","url_meta":{"origin":160330,"position":3},"title":"The Last Days of Pompeii (Beverly Hills Style)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jul-17 1:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Come the revolution, you now know the place to march with your torches and pitchforks.Or, put another way, anyone who buys this house based on this ad deserves a major landslide next rainy season that sends it careening down into the mansion below (when nobody is at home to get\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13248,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/06\/money_well_thrown_away.html","url_meta":{"origin":160330,"position":4},"title":"Money well-thrown-away","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Feb-09 10:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"These guys really don't get it. 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Now, there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"Torches and Pitchforks","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/angry-mob-300x199.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160343,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160330\/revisions\/160343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}