What they say about assuming Change may indeed make fools of us all, as Ezra Klein writes in reference to the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Was SVB a “bank run by idiots” or a “bank-run by idiots,” posed financial journalist Matt Klein. Perhaps both, the former Klein poses back. History, too, makes fools of us all by keeping a record. Conservatives who once believed they “defend the unchanging ground of our changing experience” now twist democracy into a pretzel to justify minority rule as long as they’re the minority — “Hehehe” — to borrow from an amateur painter in Texas. The Federalist Society faces the uncomfortable realization that “most conservatives couldn’t care less about their high-minded principles, and, even worse, that many of their allies view their attachment to those principles as a quaint — and slightly embarrassing — relic of the bygone era when conservatives still had to be coy about what they actually believed.” That era is not entirely gone. Still, I’ve lost count of the times I’ve written that conservatives’ (and include evangelicals’) attachment to their vaunted principles is a mile wide and an inch deep. They prove again and again that many are at heart royalists committed to a system of government by hereditary royalty and landed gentry. A mistake all of us make is to assume that underneath our changing experience is unchanging ground. Those who allege this country was founded of, by, and for Christians may reference the Mayflower Compact’s multiple references to…