Prof Jacobson's pep talk

 

William A Jacobson teaches law at Cornell U and is the proprietor of Legal Insurrection.  He was the point person reporting on the David vs Goliath lawsuit by Gibson’s Bakery against Oberlin College.  And he posted an article yesterday that will resonate with readers at this blog:

Periodically I’m called upon to give a Pep Talk. Too often, because that has been the reality of our political system in the over 14 years since Legal Insurrection was founded.

It’s not easy. I feel what readers feel. While I play therapist, I’m also the patient. It weighs heavily on me. No more so than now.

I received this message from a reader who was unsubscribing from the Morning Insurrection newsletter, explaining why she was leaving:

“I need to step away for a bit. It is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is heading.”

That’s a feeling I have almost daily. It’s a feeling others have expressed to me apart from that reader.

The swiftness and efficiency with which the Biden administration has damaged the country is something to behold, and it’s built on a generation of institutional capture. I could run a list, but you know already. The current trajectory cannot be sustained, something has to give.

I wish I had an easy answer. But I don’t.

I do know that there is no choice but to keep fighting back. It’s our nature.

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There’s more here.  Same message as Dr Robert Malone’s:  you are not alone.

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