Ben Wittes:
"In contemplating the dangers of the second #Trump term, the damage he can do with perfect legality actually looms more ominously than his ultimately-inevitable criminality... the simple truth is that if we are going to protect #democracy, the actions of the state matter more than the criminal actions of the man."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/no-recriminations--just-democratic-survival
@fluxed it's important to highlight "perfect legality."
We should call out #Democrats for not only botching this election, but also not reforming those laws while they had the chance.
It's something I, for one, have been screaming about for years: If you don't like what a #Trump like president might do with his legal authorities, then fix the laws to make sure he wouldn't have those authorities!
Well, if we start yelling about that now and establish it as something we really want done, maybe down the road we can actually have those needed reforms from a party that's not so utterly aloof.
