This is a long article, but well worth your time. Link to original below snippet.
Karin McQuillan:
“…My intuition is that the Democrats are not panicking enough about the pending confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. They’ve been so busy ginning up their base with claims that Kavanaugh will spell the end of abortion and gay marriage that they haven’t focused on the more likely, and larger, impacts of an originalist court. Trump’s court will change America.
Kavanaugh is most robust in defending the Constitution on foundational questions, not the headline grabbers. This is good news.
An originalist court will bring needed changes to everyday life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We’ve already seen several dramatic victories when Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court last term. This was a foretaste of far-reaching changes to come. Reinstating constitutional safeguards against government power will be significant for religious freedom, free speech, curtailing racial preferences, unleashing free enterprise, and stopping unaccountable government…It has been almost a century since progressives on the Supreme Court radically transformed America’s legal traditions. We will not see abrupt and rapid change, as when progressives legislated from the bench in Roe v Wade or dictating gay marriage. The Trump court will be the beginning of a new era of slower, case by case progress back to constitutional limits on government power…”