I genuinely think they don't know the difference! Governance is: you say things in order to get the people on the screens to say nice things about you. If they aren't saying nice things about you, you need to say different things. There's nothing beyond/outside that.

this time around, he leaned on the classic model employed by authoritarians of hiring people who owe their position only to you, and have no independent allies. that way they won’t worry about their future careers, or violating the law on your behalf (b/c they have no other ways of holding power).

There's been 2 attempts to remove him from office by the power of Congress, through impeachment, and he was impeached, he just wasn't convicted, because the GOP refused to do it - McConnell laid everything in the lap of DoJ, and through dithering around, allowed trump to run out the clock.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power"

FDR

... I am entirely sure this is a bad thing. It makes me a less effective political agent, but much more importantly it makes me a worse person. I suspect I'm not alone in this.

A jury's power to acquit (not necessarily to convict) is the most unchecked power that exists in our whole system of government. No judge can overturn it. No prosecutor or president can challenge it. Nobody can punish them for it. They don't have to explain why. End of story, case over.

100%. Tear down the ballroom, dig up his patio & replant the area with rosebushes similar to those he destroyed. If he builds that ridiculous arch, take a wrecking ball to it. Additionally, pull down that hideous gold stuff he's plastered all over the oval office!! The WH is NOT a monument to trump😡

I have been debating conservatives for 4 decades and the only thing consistent about them is that they think it’s unfair, evil even, to remember what they previously said and repeat their words.

"By the Waters of Babylon", a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét, I first redd in high school. I think about it often now.