An excerpt from the excellent book, "How Democracies Die"

Exactly. So get over it. If push comes to shove they'll accept any reason he gives. You can't stop it. All you can do is vote in 2026 and hope we take the House or Senate back so he can't get this stuff legally done.

Even if we control the House and impeach him, the Senate won't do shit about it. Look at what Mitch said after Jan 6th.

Feb 13, 2021 — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday delivered a searing address from the Senate floor condemning Donald Trump as “practically and morally responsible. He said he'd love to impeach him but he is no longer POTUS so it's for the courts to decide.

Then because Merrick Garland is a pussy and dragged his feet, the Jan 6 case got delayed till after the election. Trump won. That case goes bye bye.

Elections have consequences. The American people were fully warned. You don't like it? Neither do a lot of people who voted for Trump or voted 3rd party. Too late. Elections have consequences.

Once consequence is that elections will be rigged like Trump tried to steal 2020. Only he'll get away with it in the future. Who's gonna complain? You? Me?

You are still insane -

He has never been more popular-
He is doing exactly what we hired him to do.
The only people who are even a little unhappy are the ones who don't believe that he is doing it fast enough.
 
Acting Attorney General James McHenry determined the officials could not be trusted in “faithfully implementing the president’s agenda,”


Not in dispute, real world.
 
Why are you calling justice "retribution"? They can commit years of lawfare against us and if we fire them for it you blame US?
Lawfare was what trump employed to prevent the cases from coming to trial before the election.
 
trump supporters know this is wrong too.

President Trump’s handpicked acting D.C. U.S. Attorney insisted Friday afternoon that a federal judge should rescind his own order from Friday morning barring recently released Oath Keepers from going to D.C. and, specifically, the U.S. Capitol.

Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, a Missouri political operative, three time-failed candidate and activist on behalf of Jan. 6 defendants who Trump appointed to the office this week, raced to file a tersely worded motion that reads more like a directive to the judge than a request to the court.

In asking U.S. District Judge Ahmit Mehta for the District of Columbia to rescind his order, Martin said that President Trump’s commutation of the sentences of the Oath Keepers found guilty of seditious conspiracy covered all aspects of their sentences and left the judge with no power to impose restrictions on their release.

No Assistant U.S. attorney, the line prosecutors who handle criminal cases, signed onto the incredibly unusual order.

 

For some context, the authors are speaking of the litmus test used to identify authoritarian leaders.

"The final warning sign is a readiness to curtail the civil liberties of rivals and critics. One thing that separates contemporary autocrats from democratic leaders is their intolerance of criticism, and their readiness to use their power to punish those......in the opposition, media, or civil society..........who criticize them."

Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations


The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said.

Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.

What made it all the more jarring, current and former officials said, was that such a momentous and aggressive step had been initiated by an obscure acting attorney general, James McHenry, operating on behalf of a president with a stated desire for vengeance, and few advisers with the stature or inclination to restrain him.

Greg Brower, who was a U.S. attorney during the George W. Bush administration, said the move was unheard-of.

“This is unprecedented, given the career status of these people, which makes them not subject to dismissal by the president, and the apparent lack of any cause that the department has been able to articulate,” Mr. Brower said. “And so I suspect we will see them exercise their rights to appeal” to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that reviews the claims of dismissed civil service workers and can reinstate them.


A word to trump supporters. I know you know this is wrong. The reason I know is if a Dem prez did it you would rightly be calling this an abuse of power. Because it is.

Are you going to keep allowing trump to get away with things like this without speaking up? How far he goes really is up to you. If you collectively make it known you disapprove he will stop. Or you can do nothing and idly watch this orgy of revenge continue.
The lack of self awareness can only be measured using scientific notation
 
You had no problems when Biden took away liberties
Are the liberties of children who are required to have certain vaccinations to attend public school being taken away?
 
Whatever Democrats and their allies in D.C. and in the media say, two key Republican senators seem to support Trump, saying that he can and should appoint his own people to these positions.

"These are Biden-appointed officials," Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), an attorney, tweeted Saturday. "There’s nothing novel about replacing them with Trump appointees."

"It’d be crazy not to do this."

Lee's colleague and fellow attorney Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) likewise told Fox News on Sunday the president has "a right to get in there who he wants."

What's more, John Yoo, a well-respected law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a longtime supporter of Trump, believes the president is on solid legal footing with the firings, despite the caterwauling on the left.

"President Trump is well within his power to remove members of the executive branch at will. In Seila Law v. CFPB (2020), the Supreme Court held that Congress could not protect officers of the United States from removal by the President. ... In Seila Law, the Court said that the only officers that Congress might be able to protect are those that are members of multi-body commissions, like the FCC or the SEC," Yoo said, according to Newsweek.

"The Inspectors General do not have that status; they are simple members of the executive branch agencies. Even if Congress attempts to place conditions on their removal, those conditions are unconstitutional. Any Inspector General that attempts to challenge their removal in court — they would still have to leave office and just sue for back pay — will be wasting their money in lawyers fees."
 
312-226 = LANDSLIDE = MANDATE!

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have exaggerated his victory since the November election, claiming a “landslide” win and a sweeping mandate despite having prevailed relatively narrowly — assertions Trump continued to press during a pre-inauguration rally in Washington.

“We achieved the most epic political victory our country has ever seen,” Trump told supporters Sunday at Capital One Arena.

Such claims are not supported by the election results, which show a starkly divided electorate and a historically slim win by Trump. His margin of victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the national popular vote — 1.5 percentage points — is the smallest of any president who secured a popular-vote win since Richard M. Nixon in 1968.

 

For some context, the authors are speaking of the litmus test used to identify authoritarian leaders.

"The final warning sign is a readiness to curtail the civil liberties of rivals and critics. One thing that separates contemporary autocrats from democratic leaders is their intolerance of criticism, and their readiness to use their power to punish those......in the opposition, media, or civil society..........who criticize them."

Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations


The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said.

Justice Department veterans called the firings an egregious violation of well-established laws meant to preserve the integrity and professionalism of government agencies.

What made it all the more jarring, current and former officials said, was that such a momentous and aggressive step had been initiated by an obscure acting attorney general, James McHenry, operating on behalf of a president with a stated desire for vengeance, and few advisers with the stature or inclination to restrain him.

Greg Brower, who was a U.S. attorney during the George W. Bush administration, said the move was unheard-of.

“This is unprecedented, given the career status of these people, which makes them not subject to dismissal by the president, and the apparent lack of any cause that the department has been able to articulate,” Mr. Brower said. “And so I suspect we will see them exercise their rights to appeal” to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that reviews the claims of dismissed civil service workers and can reinstate them.


A word to trump supporters. I know you know this is wrong. The reason I know is if a Dem prez did it you would rightly be calling this an abuse of power. Because it is.

Are you going to keep allowing trump to get away with things like this without speaking up? How far he goes really is up to you. If you collectively make it known you disapprove he will stop. Or you can do nothing and idly watch this orgy of revenge continue.
Just to recap from this last election, a CNN poll found that out of the voters whose number one reason for voting was to save democracy, 58% of those people voted for Trump because Democrats were taking democracy away.
 
Not clearly.

No one even thinks that - real world.
Clearly. You'd have to be stupid to not know Trump tried to steal 2020.

But then again, you'd have to be stupid to vote for him after he tried to rig 2020. And we did vote for him.

Are you claiming the majority of Americans or voters are smart?
 
312-226 = LANDSLIDE = MANDATE!

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have exaggerated his victory since the November election, claiming a “landslide” win and a sweeping mandate despite having prevailed relatively narrowly — assertions Trump continued to press during a pre-inauguration rally in Washington.

“We achieved the most epic political victory our country has ever seen,” Trump told supporters Sunday at Capital One Arena.

Such claims are not supported by the election results, which show a starkly divided electorate and a historically slim win by Trump. His margin of victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the national popular vote — 1.5 percentage points — is the smallest of any president who secured a popular-vote win since Richard M. Nixon in 1968.



Hate break it to you, Simp. We don't elect a President by the popular vote.

Get an education.
 
Just to recap from this last election, a CNN poll found that out of the voters whose number one reason for voting was to save democracy, 58% of those people voted for Trump because Democrats were taking democracy away.
Horseshit.

 
Clearly. You'd have to be stupid to not know Trump tried to steal 2020.

But then again, you'd have to be stupid to vote for him after he tried to rig 2020. And we did vote for him.

Are you claiming the majority of Americans or voters are smart?

There was no attempt to steal 2020
The fact that you cannot get past your lie is a HUGE reason that people swept you all out of power.
Average, intelligent, caring people simply said, "enough already".
 
Are the liberties of children who are required to have certain vaccinations to attend public school being taken away?
No, when Biden made people lose their jobs if they didn’t get the COVID vaccine.

That was a historic breech of personal Liberty by a president onto the public. Nearly tyrannical, and disgusting. You ought to be ashamed to even overlook it and try to point a finger at Trump
 
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