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I see what you're saying, but listening to partisan rhetoric on both sides here does not really get you any closer to the truth here.

If you were you were to look back at the political discourse in 1920s and 1930s Germany, you'd find extremely scathing critiques from the Nazis lobbied against the Social Democratic party. Did this mean that the two were equally bad?

While it's true that Biden's actions during his recent term were frequently called unconstitutional by the right – be it for trying to raise the minimum wage or forgiving student loan debt – it was rarely from a perspective of solidifying his executive power. In the case of the Trump v. United States, he was avowedly against how the ruling implicitly expanded his executive power.

On the flip side, Trump's openly pushing the expansion of his executive power with his firing inspectors general, overruling the senate by freezing funds and appointing his own pseudo-agencies that take control over independent agencies in the executive branch.

These are fundamentally different things, and should be treated very differently, even if people from either side complain about both.



And of course January 6, a literal coup attempt, was perpetrated by the Rs. Nothing remotely like that on the D side.




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