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This is absolutely true and something that, for reasons I do not comprehend, mostly goes unnoticed.

People compare Trump to Hitler, but that's ridiculous. Hitler actually wanted to get things done. Trump doesn't have an agenda. He just wants to be CEO, president, king, whatever.

And even if Trump did have sinister plans, the guy is likely to be dead in 5 years, 10 at the very worst. He looks like he could drop dead any second now, but it's not obvious because Biden is already decomposing and they compare the two.

But the courts.. that is incredibly dangerous. Look at Italy and Germany in the 1930's. As soon as they can get around the checks and balances of a democratic society by dismantling or influencing the courts, it becomes very easy to create a fascist authoritarian society.

My personal belief in America is strong. I believe these wrongs will be corrected in the coming years and much needed change will come. But man, this is not the kind of game you should be playing.

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Completely. Trump won't destroy democracy as some of them libs are panicking about. But what he is doing is giving others excuses to erode conventions and checks and balances because they are situationally convenient in the now. That's never a good long term strategy for a stable nation to sell out its future for short-term gains.

And as for the courts, yeah, the anti-lawfare crowd is notching their wins. But I do think at the expense of a president holding power over assigning and influencing the court system that it should never have in the first place. Separation of powers is fundamental and a good part of the reason why people in the EU freaked about Poland and Hungary.

I'm not so sure that the current environment is conducive to repairing the damage though. There's more interest in winning at all costs it seems than doing what's best for a healthy, functioning state with a proper immune system to abuses.

I say it would be fair to call the US an immunocompromised democracy right now.
Back in 2020, the Democracy Matrix placed the US as a "Deficient Democracy", which I would also agree with.
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
As f'ed up as Portugal is, I would even agree the democracy is stronger here. We just had a funding/financial influence scandal that took down our elected government last year, but at the same time ... it took down the government. It would have been worse if it didn't.

Back on the short-term sellouts, Hillbilly Sellout JD Vance is out now suggesting that "if you can't run, you can't serve". Which is not only a weird game of chicken to maybe try to keep Biden as his opponent, it's also a terrible precedent. LBJ had the personal sense not to run again. And every last-term president could theoretically be opened up to resignation demands if this shifts the Overton Window on the topic. All of that very, very bad ... and for what gain?

So shortsighted and stupid.
 
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Among VP candidates, Josh Shapiro of PA makes the most sense. So bizarre since he was in the news last weekend for Trump’s assassination attempt and most haven’t heard of him until then.

Beshear is in the mix but KY is a lost cause.
 
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