If the Supreme Court dismantles a core provision in Obamacare, America will be plunged into a pre-2010 level of dystopia — or worse. If Democrats were to be forced by the court to follow the law they wrote, then 36 states that aren’t interested in hosting federal “exchanges” would no longer be forced to do so, and consequently, the American dream would be shattered.

So needless to say, the pending Supreme Court challenge over the Affordable Care Act via King v. Burwell is the most significant decision since Hobby Lobby or perhaps Citizens United — or whenever the most recent time was when the world was going to come tumbling down around us. And while pretending that the legal challenge is laughably weak — a politically motivated charade that has absolutely no chance of success — most left-wing pundits who’ve weighed in on the matter feel oddly compelled to urge SCOTUS to contemplate a whole host of factors that have nothing to do with the law.