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'When presidencies go wrong': Economist says Trump may fall into trap that will 'doom' him
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Why would he care? He can't get elected again. He's probably not even going to be alive many more years (or at least not mentally aware of anything)
He's going to start talking about a third term within a month of taking office. At first they're going to write it off as "jokes" and then he's going to push it to the supreme court.
Am I the only person in the world that heard him say many times that if you vote for him you'll never have to vote again? I feel like I'm going fucking crazy here.
Yes. He said it and he meant it.
At least ~70 million people are actually mentally ill. Don't bother trying to rationalize their actions because that will make you insane.
Not mentally ill, actual fascists.
Same thing, different names
Some of them for sure. I'd wager the largest demographic are just profound idiots in a propaganda bubble. I hope.
It scares me the way his base ate it up. What is wrong with people that they don't appreciate living in a modern democracy. Its just crazy to think of living before world war one compared to were we are at now.
Prosperity breeds discontent, unfortunately. It's human nature.
Oh he did. My only hope at this point is that he is just so self-centered he meant he didn't care about their voting anymore because he personally could never run again.
At least from a personal perspective, I wouldn't be surprised if he would be ok with closing his legacy having "won the game" by serving as president as long as he was allowed to serve with an overwhelming electoral victory.
Something something it’s constitutional because democrat FDR and the first term didn’t count because we didn’t get to hang Mike Pence.
/s but not really
I’m sure his Supreme Court would be happy to rule the constitution unconstitutional.
Because the cons are "originalists", lol.
As much power as they have, they can't do that fortunately. So, they'll need to get creative. Something along the lines of "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" really means twice consecutively, so a third term is good to go. As flippant as I sound about it, it is actually a possibility if Trump survives that long and wants to run again.
I mean, what actually stops them? Like, if they just came out and said verbatim "yeah, we dont care about the constitution anymore, republican presidents can do whatever they want" word for word as their ruling, and the president and congress are occupied by republicans with no desire to impeach them for it or refuse to enforce the ruling, what do you suppose happens?
Before Trump won the popular vote, I'd say that would trigger a mass uprising or ignition of a civil war. Now, maybe a few protests and a riot here and there? Honestly, probably not much.
I've never been less sanguine about the United States as a nation than I am right now.
Oh if they did I'd love to see Obama throw his hat in the ring.
"It's not enforceable" just like the 14th amendment.