It’s just talk though. Republicans in Utah’s state legislature, angry that the state’s Supreme Court has occasionally ruled against them, recently pushed through a bill that would add two justices to the court. They made disingenuous claims of making the court more efficient, but their intention is obviously to appoint two GOP loyalists and ensure the court never again rules against the legislature. Cox signed the court-packing into law last weekend without a word of complaint.
Let me define my terms here. Fully anti-Trump, anti-MAGA Republicans/ex-Republicans are people who have fully denounced the current GOP and endorsed Democratic candidates in recent presidential elections. Their ranks include former party Chair Michael Steele, onetime GOP staffers Bill Kristol and Nicolle Wallace, journalist Jennifer Rubin, ex-Representative Adam Kinzinger, and numerous others. They are critical to defending American democracy. Anti-Trump Republicans have helped persuade many journalists, business and civic leaders, and ultimately voters that Trump is a distinct threat to the country and a serious break with the conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Some of these Republicans, such as Barrett, Collins, and Murkowski, have not personally leaned into casting themselves as non-MAGA Republicans. The media has elevated them. But others have consciously portrayed themselves as unaligned and even hostile to Trump. Remember when Roberts sanctimoniously declared, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges” after the president criticized court rulings against him? Barrett memorably declared that the high court was “not a bunch of partisan hacks” (while sharing a stage with Mitch McConnell!). Romney did numerous interviews when he was in the Senate praising himself for not backing Trump as often as his colleagues. Cox knows that The New York Times and Harvard are very influential institutions on the left and seems eager to be portrayed by Democrats as smart and reasonable.
The Times published a story this week showing that the chief justice has started requesting that court employees sign nondisclosure agreements. Why? Because behind-the-scenes reporting on the high court is demonstrating that, Roberts’s pleas of innocence aside, it is full of Republican-aligned justices maneuvering to defend Republicans and Trump whenever possible. Sadly, Roberts is trying to limit reporting on his and his colleagues’ partisanship, instead of limiting the real problem—their excessive partisanship.
Cox has also signed anti-trans legislation and provisions limiting diversity and equity policies on Utah college campuses. He is fully on board, not just with the anti-tax policies of old-style Republicans like Romney and Bush but with the obsessions of MAGA.
But I will admit falling into the trap of praising non-MAGA Republicans myself. Barrett ruled against the GOP’s position in a few cases in late 2024 and early 2025, and I wrote a piece excitedly hoping that she would be a bulwark against Trump. That of course didn’t pan out, and I probably shouldn’t have thought for even a second that it would. I (and I suspect many other liberals) still on some level think that the anti-MAGA Republicans will get up one day and fully join the resistance. After all, their words and deeds suggest they understand how radical Trump is and disagree with him much more than very MAGA figures like DeSantis do.
So Spencer Cox isn’t uniquely bad. But he’s bad. He and other non-MAGA Republicans can’t be trusted to defend democratic values or hold Trump in check. We’ve had 10 years of these people faking opposition to Trump and MAGA before ultimately falling in line. We liberals need to stop falling for it.
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