Revisiting Dahlia Lithwick's Post-Election Episode of Amicus

Note: This is a public post (I want to link to it on Twitter).

After election night in 2016, I was curious as to how the various politics-related podcasts that I listened to would respond. Before the election, they had all (or almost all; there might be some outliers I'm not remembering) been confident that Clinton was going to win and Trump was going to lose.

 

I had thought there might be a lot of swearing, but, in the event, that wasn't the case. Many tried to be self-consciously measured in their responses. Many took time to reflect on why they had missed the likelihood of the Trump victory. But I was surprised that the most apocalyptic of the podcasts I listened to, post election, was Dahlia Lithwick's podcast 'Amicus', which is about the supreme court. You can hear the episode at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/11/the-constitution-in-the-era-of-president-trump.html .

 

I thought it would be interesting to revisit the episode, three and a half years later, to see whether it was as apocalyptic as I remembered, and to see how well her apocalyptic vision held up. Here's what I found.

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