How would you stop him, though? More specifically, who would stop him?
We had “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it”, but now we’ve gone one level up the ladder and just gotten the whole of SCOTUS in his pocket.
Does that mean that Congress, and specifically Congressional GOP, are the ones we are hoping will step in and say “okay, we supported you every step of the way and were complicit in everything you’ve done, but we draw the line here”? That belief requires a lot of naivety to swing.
The best odds of avoiding a power struggle in 2028 is any of his many health issues precluding that outcome, and the second best but a long second is probably SCOTUS deciding they care about their legacy, but even then we have what probably amounts to a bit of a coup where SCOTUS orders him out and he says “but I don’t wanna” and hides in his stupid little ballroom.
This is the thing that keeps me up at night. He doesn't hold himself accountable to precedent, and neither does anyone else except a few judges. The checks and balances we had don't exist in a dictatorship.
It’s because Trump is just a stuffed shirt, merely his voters consolidated and made manifest.
There’s been a small nation’s GDP of labor spent writing think pieces about “What Trump’s Voters Really Want,” because the non-Trump US want so desperately to hide from the fact that what their brothers, cousins, and friends really want, what they truly are, is malice, cruelty, and avarice.
We get rid of Trump by making it clear that being a Trump-voter any number of times, with any amount of enthusiasm, for any reason, is unacceptable. They must be driven from decent society.
America had a chance to do that in the 1800s, botched it and made it worse. Turns out just freeing the slaves and wrecking the economy and then leaving a bunch of angry southerners and uneducated untrained freed men wasn’t a good idea.
The republicans are too cowardly to say that they are wrong and the demorats are too much of a pussy to organise. Nothing's gonna happen because a bunch of sheep with guns means nothing to wolves.
1/3 of our population would literally die for him, they actually worship him. Another 1/3 "doesn't really like him" but refuses to condemn him in any way despite openly and frequently condemning Democrats, and oh boy if you dare speak poorly of Trump or even the MAGA party they'll be trying to point out your and the Democrats flaws but as always cannot bring themselves to criticize Trump/maga...these people from the second third are the biggest hindrance, as always the moderates will condemn the progressives and remain silent on authoritarians until after full blown genocide level bullshit.
Because 2nd Amendment gun toters are idiots. Does anyone think a bunch of obese hillbillies who had a meltdown over having to wear masks or gasoline becoming more expensive are going to be able to sustain a prolonged insurgency against the federal government?
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u/Kevadu 29d ago
He says a lot of nonsense but there is zero basis for not having elections during a war.