I think this is the beauty of the United States, that we citizens take for granted.
You can make a video of this anywhere with any state, expect Oklahoma, and witness pure beauty in nature
„Follow my advice and my example, drink a bottle of champagne and eat a few dozen oysters with it, and I am convinced that the world situation will immediately appear to you in a far rosier light.“
- Otto von Bismarck
I’ve seen some people slamming Elena Kagan here recently and I’d just like to relate what I know: she was an outstanding Dean at Harvard Law. She fostered a serious intellectual culture during her time and spent real political capital to hire non-progressives of various sorts (including myself). In general, she cared about keeping up standards. Let the record show all this.
We have gone from "well, maybe if you squint at the evidence you can make an argument the President is right" to "all True Originalists believe the President is right" at a breakneck pace.
Sometimes, just sometimes, the long-held, intuitive answer is the right one.