President Biden on Monday told a Broadway theater that he was running for reelection because Donald Trump was determined to destroy the nation, according to Associated Press reporting.
It is strange to be living through history. A time when the most stable democracy in the world saw an attempted coup by a President who only stepped down when his attempt to stop the transition of power failed. Then he used his grip on a following of poorly educated racists to maintain a stranglehold on a major party to force his return to leadership knowing the party would collapse if he took his following with him. Trump is a villain for the ages.
Trump should have been behind bars since the afternoon of Jan 6.
He should have been impeached immediately, and arrested and indicted for inciting an insurrection.
And every Republican in Congress should have been 100 percent on board with that.
But… If we set aside for a moment that they are a party of traitors, that still doesn’t explain why Merrick Garland wasn’t putting the cuffs on Trump the day he was sworn in as the new AG.
IT’S ABSOLUTE MADNESS THAT TRUMP IS ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND FREE. In our entire history, we’ve never come closer to losing our democracy. Including the civil war.
Something I take heart in is the fact that Hitler, before World War 2, was considered controversial as well. A lot of people thought it was improper to mock or criticize a world leader, and that he had good reasons for doing what he wanted to do, and that America shouldn’t be involved in foreign conflicts, and so on.
Of course, the judgment of history is (properly) that he is a racist, xenophobic, warmongering madman and we stopped him too late if anything.
I feel pretty confident Trump is gonna wind up remembered the same way.
We have large turnovers constantly. Our system is inherently unstable, even if one side actually tried to build as hard as the other side destroys, we’d just end up constantly building and destroying on a cycle. We’ve been destroying more than we build since the 90s when neoliberals convinced voters if they tried half as hard, they’d maintain power and slowly make progress.
We’ve just been taking two steps back and one forward.
It is strange to be living through history. A time when the most stable democracy in the world saw an attempted coup by a President who only stepped down when his attempt to stop the transition of power failed. Then he used his grip on a following of poorly educated racists to maintain a stranglehold on a major party to force his return to leadership knowing the party would collapse if he took his following with him. Trump is a villain for the ages.
Trump should have been behind bars since the afternoon of Jan 6.
He should have been impeached immediately, and arrested and indicted for inciting an insurrection.
And every Republican in Congress should have been 100 percent on board with that.
But… If we set aside for a moment that they are a party of traitors, that still doesn’t explain why Merrick Garland wasn’t putting the cuffs on Trump the day he was sworn in as the new AG.
IT’S ABSOLUTE MADNESS THAT TRUMP IS ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND FREE. In our entire history, we’ve never come closer to losing our democracy. Including the civil war.
Something I take heart in is the fact that Hitler, before World War 2, was considered controversial as well. A lot of people thought it was improper to mock or criticize a world leader, and that he had good reasons for doing what he wanted to do, and that America shouldn’t be involved in foreign conflicts, and so on.
Of course, the judgment of history is (properly) that he is a racist, xenophobic, warmongering madman and we stopped him too late if anything.
I feel pretty confident Trump is gonna wind up remembered the same way.
I’m going to need a source for “the most stable democracy in the world” part
Yeah…
We have large turnovers constantly. Our system is inherently unstable, even if one side actually tried to build as hard as the other side destroys, we’d just end up constantly building and destroying on a cycle. We’ve been destroying more than we build since the 90s when neoliberals convinced voters if they tried half as hard, they’d maintain power and slowly make progress.
We’ve just been taking two steps back and one forward.
linking this, but inviting challenges to it knowing there are numerous counterexamples of instability but still 219 years is a long time
Pretty sure Britain’s parliament is like a thousand years old.
Maybe 700 years old, but most of the middle class couldn’t vote until 1832.
Well said.
Wait, y’all really think you were “the most stable democracy in the world” at any point in history?
You had a civil war.