It is very reasonable to the guardrails did not hold, or they held just barely - like, they kept the car of democracy from tumbling all the way down a sheer rock-strewn cliff into the sea, but that car is still hanging at the top, has not been properly rescued and refurbished, and we don’t yet know if that car will be back on the road in…
It is very reasonable to the guardrails did not hold, or they held just barely - like, they kept the car of democracy from tumbling all the way down a sheer rock-strewn cliff into the sea, but that car is still hanging at the top, has not been properly rescued and refurbished, and we don’t yet know if that car will be back on the road in ‘24.
Trump was only 1 Mike Pence away from throwing the transition of power into chaos, and exploiting that chaos by running teams of fake electors into DC to further sow confusion. Or, he was only 1 flunky Attorney General way from an ‘official’ pronouncement that the ‘20 election had been ‘rigged’ against him, with even more white nationalist Brownshirts in the streets.
And the guardrails did not at all hold Trump in check, because the seditious swine is just weeks away from clinching the Republican nomination for President, based on his boneheaded voters, the Republican leaders who are terrified by the voters, and based on Trump’s tireless appetite for both lying and threatening.
It is very reasonable to the guardrails did not hold, or they held just barely - like, they kept the car of democracy from tumbling all the way down a sheer rock-strewn cliff into the sea, but that car is still hanging at the top, has not been properly rescued and refurbished, and we don’t yet know if that car will be back on the road in ‘24.
Trump was only 1 Mike Pence away from throwing the transition of power into chaos, and exploiting that chaos by running teams of fake electors into DC to further sow confusion. Or, he was only 1 flunky Attorney General way from an ‘official’ pronouncement that the ‘20 election had been ‘rigged’ against him, with even more white nationalist Brownshirts in the streets.
And the guardrails did not at all hold Trump in check, because the seditious swine is just weeks away from clinching the Republican nomination for President, based on his boneheaded voters, the Republican leaders who are terrified by the voters, and based on Trump’s tireless appetite for both lying and threatening.