I've been charitable to the new right, but the nomination of corporatist Amy Coney Barrett would move the case against them as no different than the rest of the GOP establishment. The CARES Act, tax cuts, etc, the evidence is piling up they merely talk a good game on economics.
Some on the right like to critique 'woke capital,' and that critique has merit. But the conservative legal movement is profoundly dishonest and the obsession with 'woke capital' is masking their own institutional dishonesty and prioritization of corporate power over all else.
Let me be more specific. Trump's antitrust case against Google is much less likely to succeed because of conservative court decisions. RBG, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan are better on antitrust. If you care about Big Tech and antitrust, you oppose the conservatives on the court.
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