Now — hear me out, I know it sounds crazy — what if you took all that immense power, safeguarded to the public, with authority over almost every aspect of life, and handed it over to a single private interest?
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in our government, there is a big, beautiful safeguard, the power for Congress to impeach the president. So while it’s easy for us to look at a single person who is causing all this damage and mayhem and corruption, the reality is most of the elected Republicans are going along with it.
True, but if this single safeguard can be manipulated, then it’s not so effective a safeguard overall, right? Truth is, consttional checks and balances have not really been tested until now. GOP realized they had to control the political bias of judges; Trump had to control the GOP. System crashed
I agree with you, what policy could stop this? Failure of your job to uphold the constitution and law makes you complacent and guilty? As a teacher I’m a mandated reporter, I am forced to act, Congress needs the same requirements. We need to make “failure to act” in public office a crime.
Unfortunately this nation never got around to legislating human norms. And now the Supreme Court has done it for us. I do think Harvard will withstand this attack, because the only thing this person who knows no shame cannot ignore is being shamed by other wealthy people and sent back to Queens.
Great quote. Keeping the Presidency weak as the Founders did was absolutely the right design for a small diverse nation born from autocracy, really an archipelago of colonies. Making the President of a continental superpower stronger in the 20th century also was right, but we forgot our beginning.
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Washington lived his entire life under the thumb of the English crown until 1789.
Trump v United States gutted that distinction.