Better.Under the law #Trump wants to use to deport 500,000 Americans, the sitting POTUS could declare the six hyper radical Justices on the SCOTUS illegal and put them into an internment camp - forever.
That is how crazy US law is under the Nutjobs on the Court.
Firstly, Trump is clearly wrong about the law.
Secondly, this description is even more wrong.
Trump has the issue of war not being declared. But here, even if war was declared, it still wouldn't authorize the removal of those justices.
@samohTmaS you almost got it, but you forgot about the people.
Trump and congresspeople are empowered by the people of the country based on where they are coming from. This is democracy at work.
The election of Trump, and the potential reelection of Trump, and the elections of the numerous representatives is a result of a population that wants those people to represent their interests. So the question is, how has the institution failed those people so badly that they want to elect folks like Trump.
The path back to sanity is to engage with fellow voters and figure out what they want and how we can address them in a sane way, so that they don't feel the need to resort to electing these flamethrowers.
But regardless of all of that, which is more of a long-term question, the president still doesn't have such crazy authorities.
It sucks that the people are feeling so fed up with the system that they are electing people to take down the system, but that's a separate issue.
The answer to that also underlies the problem. The Republicans since at least Reagan have been duplicitous.
Their stated platform sounds like it supports their members, while doing the opposite. It is very libertarian.
Though that might sound like a good thing, the reality is the opposite. By taxing the poor and subsidizing the wealthy through a dozen mechanisms, they destroyed the conditions for their own base, while ascribing the harms to the democrats.
The con-men won.
@samohTmaS That's hilarious because libertarians bash the Republican party for having such an anti-libertarian platform, when they have one at all.
