The stakes are too high. In no sane country would every election be a choice between democracy and the rule of law or not. A party should be able to lose an election without the sky falling in.
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It’s tragic that a country founded by people who had just liberated themselves from a mad king ended up voluntarily choosing (twice) a mad king who makes George III look chill
I watched Hamilton in Cardiff on Inauguration Day. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but there's a moment after America wins the war where George III says "awesome, wow!" In an exaggerated US accent. On that day, he did a very mocking Tr*mp impression instead.
My only hope is that, with a movement built around a cult of personality, when that personality moves on (in whichever form that takes) the movement tends to perish in their absence. Trump is an old man in his last term, I doubt it all survives him, there's no-one else who can maintain this nonsense
Trump is as much an Idea as a man. If the Man dies first the Idea will become far harder to kill. This is true of true of evil men just as much as the good men who's ideas were made imortal by their deaths.
The second amendment was intended as the ultimate safeguard against tyrannical governmemt. But it doesn't work any more because "the people" armed only with guns can't defeat a modern army with tanks, attack helicopters, etc.
Yes, and as a constitutional monarch bound by the Act of Succession George III had no real power anyway. It was the British parliament and its laws that the US founders were really fighting against. Trump, on the other hand, wants to be an absolute monarch - a bad version of Henry VIII.
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'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
—a foolish figure.