Is Clarence Thomas Completely Out of Touch with Progressivism—Or Is There More Behind His Blind Spot?
You ever wonder what it takes for a Supreme Court Justice to pull into the gates of… let’s call it Crazytown? Well, Justice Clarence Thomas just did that, rolling up in style and unloading a scorching critique aimed right at the heart of progressivism. He claims it’s a full-on assault on the Declaration of Independence, flipping our government’s foundation upside down by saying our rights come from government, not God. Heavy stuff, right? Thomas even pins the blame on Woodrow Wilson, calling his progressive ideas a colossal misstep in American history—a claim that sounds like it came straight out of the conservative playbook. But hold up—what if this framing misses the point about progressivism’s original fight against corporate oligarchy? And to top it off, the whole scene unfolded at the University of Texas with Republican billionaire Harlan Crow rubbing elbows in the crowd—a reminder that, sometimes, the lines between power and influence are blurrier than we think. Buckle up, because this story’s got more layers than a heavyweight champ’s comeback. LEARN MORE
2 min readMeanwhile, elsewhere among our Nine Wise Souls, Justice Clarence Thomas pulled his luxury motor coach into a prime parking spot inside the gates of Crazytown. From ABC:
“Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government… [Progressivism] holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government. It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights.”
Ultimately, the justice hung the blame on that old fool, Woodrow Wilson.
“It was a terrible mistake to adopt progressive rejection of the declaration’s vision of universal, unalienable, natural rights,” Thomas said. “Wilson’s claim that natural rights must give way to historical progress could justify the greatest mistake in our history.”
This is rightwing boilerplate. Wilson deserves derision on a lot of levels. But to define Woodrow Wilson with “progressivism” is on a par with the conservative trope that the Klan was made up on Democrats in 1868. Much of progressivism was aimed at breaking the money power of corporations and preventing the rise of an oligarchical political structure in our republic. The Austin American-Statesman has the skinny on how this particular episode occurred at the University of Texas.
The University of Texas School of Civic Leadership invited Thomas to campus to deliver a nearly hour-long lecture to an invited audience at UT’s Hogg Memorial Auditorium. University leaders, professors and students from the School of Civic Leadership attended, as did Republican billionaire Harlan Crow, who was integral to the founding of the Civitas Institute at the university.
Ah, yes. Harlan Crow, Mr. Justice Thomas’ famous benefactor, bestower of luxury vacations and private jet excursions. So the event in Texas was a matter of one of Harlan’s projects performing at another of Harlan’s projects. It’s all such a small and lovely world for our oligarchs and their friends.
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