> The US is on their second republic because the articles of confederation failed, and is looking down the barrel of a second dissolution as we speak. The US c

> The US is on their second republic because the articles of confederation failed, and is looking down the barrel of a second dissolution as we speak. The US constitutional system has arguably been reconstituted at least 3 times (in order of plausibility): US Civil War and Reconstruction amendments, FDR and New Deal, LBJ and Civil Rights Act of 1964. The latter two were not even primarily accomplished via formal Constitutional amendment, just a reinterpretation of what the Constitution allowed and compelled. What makes Trump different than those? Just the fact that, unlike the first three, it's more right-wing than progressive? I’m not saying that whatever is happening now is necessarily good, but will it lead to the collapse of the US Constitution?