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laws need to be enforced. that's it. 90% of trump horror goes away with just that simple thing
by zzzeek 9mo ago
laws need to be enforced. that's it. 90% of trump horror goes away with just that simple thing
- charlysl 9mo agoWhat happened to enforcing the law on those who assaulted the Capitol?
- yongjik 9mo agoYeah exactly, if the US actually took its rule of law seriously, we won't be having this Trump problems because he'd be in prison for the rest of his life. Biden really dropped the ball here.
- rurp 9mo agoYep, his administration took the worst possible approach by waiting so long only to bring these slow milquetoast prosecutions against trump. They should have gone after him and his accomplices immediately, but failing that doing nothing would have been better. These weak prosecutions did nothing to stop trump and only caused republicans to rally around him.
- zzzeek 9mo agoit would have helped a lot ! we'd not have an insurrectionist as president, which is illegal!
- mindslight 9mo agoSure, but how do the laws get enforced when law enforcement itself has gone rogue? State governors can't deploy their branches of the National Guard to restore Constitutional law and order without risking that the corrupt federal executive will end up taking control of those as well.
- nerdsniper 9mo agoCongress is supposed to remove ineffective executives from power, or change the laws/constitution to make the enforcement legal. Some would say they're abdicating those responsibilities.
- mindslight 9mo agoOh sure, I'd be one of those people. I was talking about an alternative approach under our system of dual sovereignty. The federal government is currently in gross violation of our Constitution that spells out the relations between the co-sovereigns. Both in terms of good-faith executing the offices laid out in the Constitution document itself, and overtly violating our natural rights including ones described in the Bill of Rights.