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Originally Posted by Skybird
If resisting to Trump now equals "pouring gasoline onto the fire", then this shows how queer things in the US have become - and beyond repair, I think. Careful, u_crank, such a thinking is dangerously close to state-fascism. The flame thrower in the game is Trump, nobody else, and his fanatical supporters are who supply him with ever new fuel tanks. Resisting to Trump is no spilling of gasoline into a fire - its an ethical imperative due to the excessive destruction of social cohesion that Trump willfully does.
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Resisting Trump in a Republic like the USA is normal behavior for those who oppose his Presidency. But how that is done is the question. Editorialize to your hearts content. Peacefully protest in the streets. Make a sign..what ever.
The idea that Trump will refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election are so far not backed up by any facts.
On the other hand there is a growing amount of evidence that his predecessor did just that. How about that? Does that bother you in any way? That a President would allow or direct (we don't know yet which is true) the power of the Justice dept. and the intellegence agencies to thwart the election and the an administration of his political opponent. Nothing Trump has done so far comes close to this.
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Kornblum just said what I have indicated in the past, too: the system and checks and balance of America were not made to deal with a threat like this.
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And the threat is? Because the system of checks and balances doesn't work the way you want it to doesn't mean it doesn't work. There are three branches of the government. Trump as the head of the Executive branch is only one.
And here is the thing you need to know. If Trump can be removed from office for anything less than a crime or treason ...
then any President can be removed for any reason.