Well I was gonna hold my tongue on this, but then I saw this post.Callous is everyone in charge in Washington who don't see a dead political icon, but a kooky old bat who finally kicked it to make room for more white men to give the country over to the Trump family.
Realist is everyone who knows her epitaph should read 'Here lies the Democracy'. She really was one of the last individuals with any power to check the current president in any way. And now there's like maybe, at best, 2 or 3 others.
U.S. Justice Ginsburg hits back at liberals who want her to retire
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a message for liberals who have been saying the 81-year-old should step down while Democratic President Barack Obama is in office so he can appoint her successor: Who are you going to get who will be better than me?
www.reuters.com
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Disses Trump, Hints She Wants Clinton to Name Her Successor
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be irreplaceable, but she’s also a pragmatist—and it appears that she has mapped out her eventual exit from her beloved...
slate.com
My sympathy in the moment is largely blunted by Ginsburg having specifically refused to retire during Obama's terms despite being in her 80's and already in failing health, in order to be replaced by "the first woman President". Those chickens just won't stop coming home to roost for years of Democratic hubris, cultish certainty, and stubbornness, will they.