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I think a lot of it, particularly the more recent stuff from you on that kind of crowd it does stem from a real fear about whether or not we actually have any tools available to us. I'm not actually quite convinced about the consequential argument that liberalism has failed but our country and Western civilization has actually done pretty damn well compared to the alternatives in the last few centuries. So at least if you have a lot of these decisions sent to the people and you have a Supreme Court that's just enforcing the original terms of the deal of the Constitution. Then they're still rooted in popular election popular choice for most decisions. That reinforces the legitimacy of the policies that our government arrives at because they are