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It is wildly fascinating to experience, in real time, how fragile the US system is. Trump really did show that the US is built on the assumption that people in
by TrackerFF 9mo ago
It is wildly fascinating to experience, in real time, how fragile the US system is. Trump really did show that the US is built on the assumption that people in power will behave, basically a honor system. Trump is stress testing every single aspect of the US.
He's dousing the US with gasoline, and fumbling around with matches. The people around him, knee deep in gas, are too afraid to take the matches from him.
In so many other countries, Trump would face a no confidence vote. Snap elections.
- fritzorino 9mo agoYeah those checks and balances that Yanks are always waxing poetic about have turned out to be basically horse shit. There are no checks and balances, they elect a king for 4 years and then hope for the best. That's the American system.
- blibble 9mo agoit's the same brilliant system that requires the current incumbent to certify their replacement
- cudgy 9mo agoLol … you think the president is in control.
- fritzorino 9mo agoLol... he is in control, since he is the president... lol.... lol...
- pseudalopex 9mo ago> Trump really did show that the US is built on the assumption that people in power will behave, basically a honor system. > In so many other countries, Trump would face a no confidence vote. Snap elections. US Congress could do many things. But Trump's party support him. Or fear his supporters would not vote for them in the next elections. Or fear worse.
- root_axis 9mo agoActually, I'd say it held up pretty well all things considered. This required decades of propaganda, years of state actor support, bankrolled and media managed by the richest man in the world, the complacency of the existing institutions, and most recently, submission by big tech and the the wider aristocracy. It was not easy.