That the spectacle of endless investigations, show trials, and ritual humiliations will somehow translate into ballots.
They’re betting the farm that their voters’ limbic systems…flooded with righteous fury and the sweet, sweet promise of payback…will override every warning light flashing in the constitutional machinery.
And if it works?
Watch the fuck out.
Because once you normalize impeachment as electoral therapy, once you teach an entire generation that losing an election is justification for destroying norms, you don’t get the Republic back.
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I read that this morning summer else.
I thought it so insightful and concise that it must be widely shared and preserved.
Good for you for bringing it forward.
The "republic" has been dead and gone for a LONG time. And it's not coming back. What we have is an oligarchic kleptocracy.
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