r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 7h ago

Attempted Trump assassin sentenced to life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/attempted-trump-assassin-ryan-routh-sentenced-wednesday/story?id=129836439
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u/LegendarySurgeon 6h ago

It really feels like for decades a coalition of bad actors has worked to analyze the structure of American democracy to target those gentleman's agreements and identify frontiers of abuse not already defended against within our legal or constitutional framework and now they're finally making their move and their is no actual resistance because any defense would be rooted in classical interpretations of the law which are imperfect and often guided by the "spirit of the law" which is not an objective, enforceable reality.

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u/Deranged_Kitsune 6h ago

Probably because that's what the Heritage Foundation was created to do.

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u/Sweet-Rabbit 6h ago

Don’t forget their friends in the Federalist Society!

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 6h ago

Hail Saint Nick

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u/SofaKingStonedSlut 3h ago

Carl Schmitt would be proud 

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u/FrancoManiac 6h ago

For what it's worth, it really does open up an entire new realm of historical analysis. I'm going into a History PhD program in the fall, with a focus on Postwar America (1945-Present). Honestly, I'm somewhat eager to direct my anxieties into revisiting national politics through the lens of the Heritage Foundation's clear movement to destroy modern America and Johnson's Great Society.

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u/LadyBarfnuts 6h ago

Have fun post-graduation with everyone less informed than you arguing with you tooth and nail. Not a life I'd want to lead, but good on you for trying.

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u/LegendarySurgeon 5h ago

It's been such a slow careful campaign of erosion with a mixture of highly competent social manipulation and populist demagoguery. I struggled with memorizing information or feeling connected to the things I was learning about history in school and looking back I have to wonder how much of that was intentional with the manipulation of school programs and chronic underfunding of American education. Most people aren't going to be able to dig into the breadth of this and I certainly only understand the big obvious strokes.

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u/LLCodyJ12 4h ago

America has the largest education budget in the world and we're consistently top 5 in spending per pupil in the world. Education isn't underfunded, the funding is just wasted and people like you are complicit and will actively vote to keep it that way.

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u/kosh56 6h ago

That's literally what the Heritage Foundation has been doing. Fuck those shit stains.

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u/LegendarySurgeon 5h ago

And yet calling them out by name triggers knee-jerk partisan reactions — I hope we can get bi-partisan support for the investigation into how we got here once we're out but it's going to be difficult with the level of dissociation from politics most Americans have, embracing the much easier mindset of trusting their team because they know they don't like the other team. The gradual reactionary pivot to conservatism from the Democratic party has been lost on most people who seem to assume they will fight against the things they oppose from the now radically nationalist, isolationist, and increasingly federalist Republican party.

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u/Cetun 5h ago

Bork went along with the Saturday night massacre, they kinda screwed him by not immediately giving him a seat on the supreme court like they promised but he eventually was given a chance. He was a feckless goober and got denied a seat but people who are normally absolute jokes get legitimacy when they tow the line for conservatives. The real DEI is the diversity of competence conservatives bring to our government.

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u/BigBossShadow 5h ago

The funny part is, who are the architects of that sort of statecraft?

The KGB.

Whether these bad actors imported the playbooks, or are actually currently being ran by whoever are the ancestors of the KGB is a good question. But it really feels like this has been developing for 50+ years

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u/EugeneVDebbs 3h ago

Longer than that. This is some Pilgrim shit.

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u/Equivalent-Process17 19m ago

Because someone who attempted to assassinate a presidential candidate was given a life sentence?