Reporter: 'People Need to Fight to Return the Country to Godliness'
Justice Alito: "I agree with you. I agree with you."
Something fascinates me about fascist-era architecture. It’s different from Soviet-style architecture, often labeled “socialist realism” because it is not inherently ugly. Almost maze-like, the linear monotony of these buildings expresses power, and they pop up in cities all over Europe: Germany, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, for example. My phone camera is filled with good examples.
America doesn’t express its fascist sentiments in architecture the way other countries do. It doesn’t have to because it has Donald Trump running for president. It has MAGA. Trump and MAGA, however, are clumsy efforts at fascism. They are buffoonish, thug-like, and ignorant. Samuel Alito, though, is now a prime example of the tight, clean lines and methodical arching of the movement from the last century that stated some people are superior to others. Alito and his wife eloquently capture the repetitive whispers of the most stoic example of fascist ideological aspirations.
When Alito and his people succeed at turning our nation full-on fascist, I propose a building like this one found in the center of Munich, Germany (next to my favorite beer garden) be constructed in his honor.
Liberal activist and documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor posted the audio on X Monday and shared it with Rolling Stone. In the exchanges, Windsor posed as a conservative hostile to abortion rights and supportive of the Alitos.
Last week, at another Supreme Court Historical Society dinner, Windsor spoke with Alito again and said negotiation with “the left” may be pointless. The conservative justice seemed to concur but then qualified his answer.
“I think you’re probably right: One side or the other is going to win. I mean there can be a way of working and living together peacefully, right? It’s difficult because there are differences on fundamental things that can’t be compromised (Alito and His Wife Captured in Audio Recordings).”
It’s troubling that a Supreme Court justice would be so comfortable speaking with someone he barely knows about such topics at a social event. The ease with which he engages her in a discussion that clearly pushes the alleged neutrality of the court — and the blindness of justice — demonstrates just how far gone the conservative side of the court really is. Trumpists and Republicans go ballistic when they find out that a judge’s daughter was openly opposed to him, and here we have justices on the highest court in the land, a court that is openly and aggressively waging a coup from the top, sounding like a producer for a right-wing talk-radio show.
Later, Ms. Windsor got Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann, going about the flag controversy.
In a lengthy exchange with Martha-Ann Alito at the same dinner, Windsor asked about the blowback the couple has received after the New York Times reported on two flag displays that have been associated with Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election. The justice said in a letter to Congress that he is not “fond of flying flags” and that his wife put them up.
In Windsor’s recording, the justice’s wife sounded unrepentant, describing her critics as “feminazis” and threatening libel lawsuits against the press.
“There’s a five-year defamation statute of limitations,” Alito said. “Don’t get angry. Get even.” She also expressed deep resentment about newspaper criticism of her fashion choices “early on” and said her husband’s efforts to rein in her penchant for flying provocative flags have largely fallen short.
“He never controls me,” she told Windsor (Alito and His Wife Captured in Audio Recordings).
We need to keep in mind, folks, that if Trump is elected and this court remains as it is, all three branches of government will be fully compromised by this fascist revolution. Let it be known that when liberals doubt the seriousness of this moment, then those are people who are clearly way too comfortable in their lives. Ensconced in the comfy-cozy world of their creature comforts, they are fooling themselves that this is a normal moment that, too, will pass. It won’t pass.
Later in the evening, Windsor got Chief Justice Roberts on tape expressing an opinion to one of her provocative questions, and the chief justice answered the way a Supreme Court justice is supposed to.
Windsor also recorded Roberts at the same fundraising event at the court last week, but he declined to take the bait when she said she believed the Supreme Court “should be guiding” America on a path as a “Christian nation.”
“I don’t know that we live in a Christian nation,” the chief justice said. “I know a lot of Jewish and Muslim friends who would say: Maybe not. It’s not our job to do that. It’s our job to decide the cases as best we can.”
Roberts also rejected the popular perception that the country is living in an era of extreme polarization.
“I have been here almost 20 years. There have been quieter times,” the chief justice said. “The Civil War — we did that. During Vietnam, people were getting killed. … This is all right. It’s not all right, but it’s not like it’s dramatically different (Alito and His Wife Captured in Audio Recordings).”
I accept the justices are human beings, but way too many Americans are ready and willing to beat the shit out of low-paid Little League umpires for making some bad calls; why can’t we expect more from the nine men and women sitting on the nation’s highest court — until death do they part?