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Fucking hell, can we get rid of this fascist mother fucker yet, please? How in the fuck did we create a system that was ostensibly meant to directly counter tyranny and then just yield to and roll over when a tyrant manages to win the presidency with an obedient congress?
How are we even on the back foot here? How is it harder to prevent or undo fascist policies than to pass them in the first place, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE OBJECTIVELY ILLEGAL?! How did we create such a toothless system of checks and balances as to render them non-existent when someone just decides to ignore them?
This country has apparently been operating on the honor system for 250 years. We have had the audacity to hold ourselves up as the ideal and expect others to model themselves after us. And then at the first attempt of a coup and installation of dictatorship, we are just impotently watching it happen. This is insane.
Because it was created 250 years ago by a whole bunch of people who seem to have believed that laws would just be enforced via gentlemans' agreement/honor system and therefore was no need to call for actual consequences for breaking those laws. It just took over 200 years before someone came around and figured out that there weren't a whole hell of a lot of teeth to those pesky amendments and it was off to the races......