Why is anyone in the U.S. thinking in terms of "four years", or "midterms ", or "elections" (beyond typical authoritarian kinds)?
Have people not been paying attention? Will these people continue to be "Shocked! Shocked!" with each new decision made by this administration?
That anyone believes anything but the worst will happen is how he got re-elected.
This time there are no obstacles to his enacting or enabling anything he chooses.
Stop your willful ignorance, this is real.
@ricardoharvin I mean the entire US government was set up to be full of obstacles to any president enacting or enabling anything they choose.
This is at the core of the US government. And no, we don't give presidents an option to switch those protections off.
Trump got reelected because the Democratic party officials settled on obviously horrible candidates that handed the election over to him, as was entirely foreseen.
So we saw that the sky didn't fall when Trump was President before. It's not going to fall this time either. Why would it?
The entire system was constructed specifically to keep presidents hindered.
The problem is that the law itself is a dead letter when the centers of power tasked with giving the law meaning are themselves infiltrated by those who seek to replace the law entirely.
The Constitution is not saving anyone.
The lesson you learned in civics class is a lie, an ideologically motivated deception of the liberal state.
To Trumpists, there is no responsibility to the will of the people, only power.
@burnoutqueen @volkris The ultimate arbiter of law has already officially stated that the President can not be prosecuted for any official act, giving Trump freedom to literally do anything, without legal consequence.
Every bit of potential litigation that rules against him will ultimately end up being decided in Trump's favor by his (literally) Supreme Court.
You're missing that without legality and act cannot be official. If an action is illegal, it's not an official act.
Remember: the Supreme Court actively sent Trump's case for further prosecution for the actions that didn't have clear legal basis.
The whole story that the Supreme Court said Trump can do anything is quickly debunked by the fact that the Supreme Court referred him for further prosecution. No, that story is completely wrong, gets what the Supreme Court said backwards.
What the Supreme Court actually said was that any president, in that case Biden, can't prosecute somebody who didn't do anything illegal. That's all it said.
If Trump does something illegal, which I'm sure he will do if he hasn't already, then according to Supreme Court he is perfectly open to prosecution, as the act would not be official by definition.
What you are forgetting is that legality itself is merely a social construct that is used to justify the violence of the ruling class and the state.
When the actually existing state has abandoned the pretense of liberal legality and is now resorting to the logic of fascism (and authoritarianism more generally), you can regard the entire concept of the law as being fundamentally altered, independently of what the Constitution says about the matter.
Just ask the Russians. The Stalin constitution promised all sorts of civil and political rights, but Stalin and his lackeys did all sorts of atrocities anyway.
@burnoutqueen I'm not forgetting that at all.
If you want to ignore the law as a mere social construct without teeth, ok, but in so far as we talk about the law, whether applied or not, we should be clear about what it actually says.
It may be purely academic, but no sense getting the facts wrong.
