We're living through not a "constitutional crisis" but a "constitutional crash" — the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249-year-old constitutional order. Our national system is dead on the table—can it be shocked back to life? https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-constitutional-crash
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Did a word get dropped from this passage?: “…I talk all the time about how the main deciding [factor?] in Watergate was that members of Congress…”
We will have to birth a new one.
Births involve lots of blood and pain.
Particularly jarring. "we didn’t envision a system where Congress would just … not care … what the president does."
Indubitably the USA has two historical precedents for resolution of disputed Presidential power.
Assassination and civil war. Nixon's crisis was a foxtrot by comparison.
What the USA becomes next is obvious: irremediable mess.
Graff's Crash analogy is apt, but "sudden"? Our system felt sick, looked ill, tested badly long before the domino denouement of multiple organ failure.
Once, a better diet, fresh air & exercise might have helped ...
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Graff notes executive, legislature, judiciary and media faults - but omits the component named first in the Constitution's text: "We the People".
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In a mythic world where every .gov $ is at best useless, they move fast, break things, acquire new powers to rack up bigger kills. It's a game. On the outside, nobody really died, lights stay on, dinner's on the table - right?
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So what about us? We the People? Are we up to the task of standing up to Trump, and standing up a constitutional democracy?
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Putin’s revenge. If not stopped soon, USA could eventually be dismembered like Soviet Union.
I'll go first: when they break social security.
big animals are eating all tinies till the last ones