Just mainly want folks to recognize the story is "trump wants to do dictator shit like other dictators do" and not "wow if we turn the constitution upside down and read it through a kaleidoscope maybe he *can* run for life'
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Honestly, it’s becoming ever clearer that, with a constitution as vague as the US has, you can have even a hardcore authoritarian system without really having to change it.
mar 30, 2025, 5:57 pm • 17 0 • view
The constitution did nothing (on its own) to stop a 100 year apartied state from operating in the US. Seems more or less custom made for a despot, tbh
mar 30, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
The genius of the US Constitution is outsourcing oppression to the states
mar 30, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Great take
mar 30, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Americans could be under the crudest despotism and still be, “are we approaching a constitutional crisis??”
mar 30, 2025, 5:57 pm • 22 1 • view
The US Constitution had a great run, but its weaknesses right now are painfully clear…
mar 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 10 1 • view
The bit that kills me here is that this isn't even the stuff it's vague about. Like it's an epidemic of people squinting past the words to make them mean the opposite of what they say
mar 30, 2025, 6:00 pm • 18 2 • view
The religious nuts at the heart of this 2025 bullshit are adept at this kaleidoscope crap. Look how Christlike
mar 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Hitler didn’t change the Weimar constitution much. He just ignored it and people let him.
apr 3, 2025, 6:23 am • 2 0 • view
100%
mar 30, 2025, 5:53 pm • 8 0 • view
Or is he just trying to forestall the inevitable 2028 successor talk by trying to freeze the budding race for as long as he can? Nobody will even hint they are putting the hat in the ring while this "third term" narrative dominates. But yes, this is straight up the Putin president for life playbook.
mar 30, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view