In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure.
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115848833302950146In the United States, he returned to the presidency just four years later.
A catastrophic, system-wide failure to hold him or the party that had elevated him to power in the first place to account that leaves Americas political elites and elite institutions widely and rightfully discredited.
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In the United States, he returned to the presidency just four years later.
A catastrophic, system-wide failure to hold him or the party that had elevated him to power in the first place to account that leaves Americas political elites and elite institutions widely and rightfully discredited.
It should be a stark reminder that a mere restoration of the deeply insufficient status quo ante will not be enough. If the devastations wrought by Trumpism in power are followed yet again by a failure to hold anyone to account and pretensions of returning to “normalcy,” democracy cannot survive.
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In the United States, he returned to the presidency just four years later.
A catastrophic, system-wide failure to hold him or the party that had elevated him to power in the first place to account that leaves Americas political elites and elite institutions widely and rightfully discredited.
@tzimmer_history There seem to be a lot of people who happily kiss democracy good bye for "safe borders" and the simple solutions of fascism. And Trump can do and say whatever he wants - they always forgive, there are never any consequences.
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In the United States, he returned to the presidency just four years later.
A catastrophic, system-wide failure to hold him or the party that had elevated him to power in the first place to account that leaves Americas political elites and elite institutions widely and rightfully discredited.
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It should be a stark reminder that a mere restoration of the deeply insufficient status quo ante will not be enough. If the devastations wrought by Trumpism in power are followed yet again by a failure to hold anyone to account and pretensions of returning to “normalcy,” democracy cannot survive.
Discredited for sure: Biden and Merritt Garland.
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Discredited for sure: Biden and Merritt Garland.
@tzimmer_history @donray Discredited for sure: 43 complicit Republican senators—a minority of senators—who voted to let him off.
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In an even remotely healthy political system and culture - and everywhere else in the democratic world - January 6 would have been a dealbreaker: The end of Trump as a major political figure. He would have been convicted, shunned, banished - everyone associated with him ostracized from public life.
https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/115848833302950146Everywhere else, that hot mike interview on the bus ("grab 'em), would have been enough.
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It should be a stark reminder that a mere restoration of the deeply insufficient status quo ante will not be enough. If the devastations wrought by Trumpism in power are followed yet again by a failure to hold anyone to account and pretensions of returning to “normalcy,” democracy cannot survive.
@tzimmer_history waiting for the bad man to die is not a plan at all. All this will happen again, and worse as someone new, smarter, more evil, and younger tries again.
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It should be a stark reminder that a mere restoration of the deeply insufficient status quo ante will not be enough. If the devastations wrought by Trumpism in power are followed yet again by a failure to hold anyone to account and pretensions of returning to “normalcy,” democracy cannot survive.
The greatest tragedy of this tragedy will be the failure to gird the soft underbelly of democracy
-reform the court
-eliminate the electoral college
-democratize the senate
-entrench voting rights
-eliminate the philibusterDemocrats just want to 'go back to the way it was" which clearly wasn't working.
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