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Please understand: this isn’t just me or other libs talking, Trump is literally running on this platform right now. He’s spinning it as “dismantling the Deep State,” of course.
Is it outlandish? Oh I think it’s a crazy fucking thing to do, but not necessarily something that Trump wouldn’t do—after all, he did it on a smaller scale when Lara Trump took over the RNC and fired 60 RNC officials and replaced them with loyalists.
When someone asks me the question that you asked, I respond with another question: “Why the hell would I ever vote for the guy and risk finding out?” Americans need to wake the hell up, stop being complacent, and stop assuming our democracy is infallible. History is full of governments that fell and became dictatorships—even republics that fell. Ancient Rome didn’t start out as an empire with an emperor, it started as a republic. We aren’t so special that it can’t happen here.
I disagree. I can’t think of another example of a time SCOTUS overturned a precedent in the name of restricting rights. Usually, it’s to expand rights, like they did when Brown v Board of Education overturned Plessy. SCOTUS had already ruled again and upheld abortion rights in Casey. What SCOTUS did was extremely radical. Unheard of.
What I’m saying is, it’s not feasible that he has “50,000 people of his own choosing” to reinstall into the government. It’s a pearl clutch.
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