“America is more resilient than many may fear. Unlike countries where democracy has recently unraveled, the United States displays at least six exceptional traits that are protecting it from the Trump-led assault,” Mila Versteeg and @kevinlcope.bsky.social write:
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The same ones that Republican lawmakers want to punish for ruling against the President's agenda....you know, that same agenda that is trying to roll back Democracy
South Africa showed more resistance to Zuma than the US is to Trump.
I appreciate that the likely intended message here is that some institutions are still holding(and that’s a hopeful message).
Holding hearings, and writing admonishments that lawyers think are scary has done, and will do, nothing to stop these people.
Not one person of consequence has been held to account.
The Trumpists have no plan to give up power.
Sry, bro, we’re an oligarchy, and have been for a long time. The democracy story is for kids and those with the red hats on, but good try.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy