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This is exactly how fascism happens.

https://archive.is/g6ElI



Same hyperboles were said in 2017 and we were fine, and in fact, economy was booming and there was world peace during his first term.


> was world peace during his first term

Cringes hard in the Yemeni civil war. Or the conflict in the Donbass. Or the various insurgencies in the Sahel, or the war in Darfur, or the Syrian civil war.

> Same hyperboles were said in 2017 and we were fine

Were you fine? The Supreme Court was stacked by blatantly political appointees who then declared that the president has immunity for official business, even if it's blatantly illegal. This is a disgusting precedent to set, yet here we are.


>Were you fine? The Supreme Court was stacked by blatantly political appointees

Supreme Court appointments have been political for decades in the US. Sad? Yes. New? No.

>who then declared that the president has immunity for official business

Not a surprising ruling at all, and not a political one. Not a "disgusting" precedent. It is a very narrow ruling and is consistent with how these things have worked for decades. There is an impeachment process, you know that right?



That has nothing at all to do with what is being discussed in this thread. Why are you so eager to change the topic when you lose the argument?


Last time there were adults in the room. Look at the gallery of clowns, rogues and thieves he's surrounded himself with this time.

This is different. This time there's an explicit removal of the people and structures intended to say "no" to executive overreach.

We ignore this at our own peril, as a nation.




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