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Re: Trump will scrap the U.S. Constitution..

Posted by Pharmakon on 2024-July-19 11:13:38, Friday
In reply to Trump will scrap the U.S. Constitution.. posted by honesty on 2024-July-19 07:48:58, Friday




A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution....

Isn't "allows for" in this context to ambiguous? Does Trump mean that the victim of such a fraud is entitled, in responding, to terminate all rules? Or does he mean that if such a fraud is allowed to stand, those who committed it will feel equally entitled to terminate all rules, and this will likely be their next step?

Trump is a word salad artist, and it's very unlikely he thought through either of the alternatives. But it is much more plausible that Trump, like any other US politician, would accuse others of plotting to discard the Constitution than that he would openly lay claim to such a plot himself.

The Dem discourse of Trump as a threat to democracy is hyperbolic and seen as such by most voters outside the Dem elite echo chamber. It won't get them the votes they need to beat him.

Because it took place in the US Capitol, and because it disrupted certification of the outcome of a presidential election and was fomented by the sitting president who lost that election, January 6 was an extraordinary event and shocked many of us. Yet at bottom it was a protest occupying a government building -- not an innovative political tactic at all, though one to which the state often responds (as it did here) with actual or threatened criminal prosecution. Some such occupations have lasted weeks. This one lasted hours. It didn't threaten democracy.

And as the current effort by the Dem power brokers and money men to dump Biden shows, the Dems themselves have no credibility to speak of commitment to democratic norms. Both US parties are all about winning elections so their retainers can feed at the public trough, and there is no depth of deceit to which either would hesitate to stoop if convinced they could get away with it.

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon



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