Nihilism: the total rejection of established laws and institutions. Much of the modern progressive movement operates with a selective version of this philosophy in its quest to delegitimize institutions it cannot control — hence the recent spate of attacks, rhetorical and otherwise, on the United States Supreme Court as an institution.
In the wake of this vicious campaign, a Marquette Law School poll released on October 3 purports to show that confidence in the Court waned by three percentage points overall since July. The percentage of respondents who think the Court’s decisions are motivated by politics is up 17 percent since 2019, with 64 percent saying that they disagree with the decision to reverse Roe v. Wade (in the midst of widespread misinformation about what that decision and the one that reversed it actually did). And, since 2019, support for the disastrous idea of expanding the Court has risen from 42 percent to 54 percent, if the poll is to be believed.
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