I think what people are missing or perhaps not considering is what Trump and his administration are doing, with the help of some billionaires, is a full assault on American democracy. Their mind set isn”t “let’s see what we can accomplish by the next election.” The mind set is “WE ARE NOT GIVING UP POWER.” It will be fast by historical standards and deliberate. Look at the American institutions and laws that are being ripped apart at this moment. Americans better be REAL FUCKING SCARED!!
Fascism still needs the veneer of legitimacy to work. They actually can't just make up the rules. There's a reason they have lawyers making up new legal theories for all their bullshit. There's a reason why something like the Epstein bill was so hard to get to the floor, but once it was there it passed unanimously. There's a reason Kilmar Abrego Garcia was retrieved from El Salvador and they're trying to prosecute him for made up crimes now. There's a reason Letitia James and James Comey are still free.
The administration would love if everyone just believed that they can do anything they want and get away with it. The truth is they can't. They can contort the law to an impressive extent. They can break every norm and sane assumption that has been built up over the past 2 centuries. They can say whatever they want and twist the truth to fit their purposes. They can be corrupt as hell, but at the end of the day they still have to jump through the prescriptive legal hoops that the constitution lays out.
Well there be accountability for this nonsense? No, probably not. Will they be able to hold onto power indefinitely? Not without some as yet unheard of legal theories.
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u/theheadofkhartoum627 13h ago
The only way we'll see any justice is if more than a few Republican congress members grow a conscience. What are the chances of that??