My confidence that Merrick Garland will do the right thing is virtually zero

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112. I think that there is a 20% chance that the Republican

presidential candidate will win the popular vote in 2024, a 45% chance that the Republican presidential candidate would win the electoral college, and a 25% chance that after losing both the popular vote and the electoral college the Republicans will take the presidency with illegal machinations. Unless and until the corporate 20% of Republicans wrest control of their party from the authoritarian 80% I think that the next time that the Republicans control the presidency and both houses of Congress, they already control the supreme court of course, that time will result in a Republican Century as Newt Gingrich said. I doubt if even the amazing Philip K. Dick could predict the horrors which would be everyday life in a country ravaged by both anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian Republican control.