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The US doesn't need to prove to the world that a bad president will never be elected again, which as you say is probably impossible and definitely false. What t

The US doesn't need to prove to the world that a bad president will never be elected again, which as you say is probably impossible and definitely false. What the US can do to rejoin the world in something akin to its former capacity is to walk back the extreme levels of authority granted to an individual who changes every four years (why is the executive able to change tariff levels every day?) in a way that relatively elevates rule of law and deliberative, compromising decision making.

unavoidable 2y ago
As an outsider, it certainly seems like the US is entirely incapable of doing that in the foreseeable future.
- whatshisface 2y ago
  Yes but at least the nature of the problem is one of getting people informed and in agreement and not some kind of economic miracle or unhinged reconquista.
BLKNSLVR 2y ago
I'm hoping that the Democrats (and sympathetic Republicans) started working on a plan for this a few weeks ago. It needs to be comprehensive, and it needs to deal with both houses being majority single party, and deal with the ability for a president to select appointees to the powerful roles that are now filled with Trump catspaws. They also need to fix their voting rules and gerrymandering. I hope.
- whatshisface 2y ago
  One thing that might help is if we stop thinking of them as, "they," as if they were some kind of occupying force.
  - krapp 2y ago
    Government is an occupying force. That some people hold sympathies with the regime and even voted for it in hopes that its serves their personal interests doesn't change the nature of the monopoly on violence.
rawgabbit 2y ago
It will be impossible until the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United is reversed. Prior to this it would have been illegal for Musk to contribute $300 million to Trump. Now he is contributing another $100 million after the Tesla car show at the White House south lawn.
spacemadness 2y ago
Yet the executive branch, regardless of which party was in office, has done nothing but push to extend its powers for decades. They all get drunk on power and can’t help themselves. And here we are.

unavoidable 2y ago

As an outsider, it certainly seems like the US is entirely incapable of doing that in the foreseeable future.

whatshisface 2y ago
Yes but at least the nature of the problem is one of getting people informed and in agreement and not some kind of economic miracle or unhinged reconquista.

BLKNSLVR 2y ago

I'm hoping that the Democrats (and sympathetic Republicans) started working on a plan for this a few weeks ago. It needs to be comprehensive, and it needs to deal with both houses being majority single party, and deal with the ability for a president to select appointees to the powerful roles that are now filled with Trump catspaws. They also need to fix their voting rules and gerrymandering. I hope.

whatshisface 2y ago
One thing that might help is if we stop thinking of them as, "they," as if they were some kind of occupying force.
- krapp 2y ago
  Government is an occupying force. That some people hold sympathies with the regime and even voted for it in hopes that its serves their personal interests doesn't change the nature of the monopoly on violence.

rawgabbit 2y ago

It will be impossible until the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United is reversed. Prior to this it would have been illegal for Musk to contribute $300 million to Trump. Now he is contributing another $100 million after the Tesla car show at the White House south lawn.

spacemadness 2y ago

Yet the executive branch, regardless of which party was in office, has done nothing but push to extend its powers for decades. They all get drunk on power and can’t help themselves. And here we are.