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If only he were in some position of power to do something about it hmmmmmm.
He doesn't. Impeaching judges is the House's job.
You know your house rep is up for election this year?
Yeah but now he's above the law, so I say do it anyway and overturn the ruling his damn self.
It sets precedents that you might not want, because if Trump or one of his cronies get into the oval office, they can do the same thing.
T h e y a l r e a d y w i l l
This notion of appeasement to fascism will doom us all.
I think the problem is, if Dems do it first, they're not better than the Republicans.
Unilateral dictatorships are unilateral dictatorships no matter who does it.
You can't win in a game where one side insists on cheating and one side insists on following the rules. Our system of governance wasn't designed for this level of factionhood. It should and could've been stopped the right way maybe 20 or 30 years ago. At the least, 8 years ago. And the very last chance was when Trump's second impeachment made it to the Senate.
But now, there's no chance.
It's not even really "cheating" that the Republicans are doing. Most everything is getting a "legal" stamp of approval. Just in a shady way that clearly and defiantly goes against everything this country has ever been about.
Hey I know another politician who was pretty popular for his time that did the same thing. Bright young man with a funny mustache.
OH MY FUCKING GOD WHY DONT YOU FUCKING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WILL ALREADY FUCKING DO THAT!!! THEY DO NOT NEED OR EVEN WANT DEMOCRAT PERMISSION OR PRECEDENT!!! Goddamn a you fucking milquetoast losers who defended free speech for Nazis all this time and got us in this fucking predicament!! You NEVER understand who you're dealing with!!
If Trump gets back into office, it's game over, unless the people are willing to fight a civil war to stop him. Though even that will probably be too little too late because of the power vacuum it will likely create on the world stage when WWIII already looks possible in the next decade.
It might already be too late because I agree that Biden pushing his weight around with these new lack of presidential limits would get messy. But the cat is out of the bag right now and it's not going to go quietly back in.