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It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
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It’s a people failure.
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Fascism has come to America, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
Documenting the crimes and corruption of the 47th president of the United States and his fascist minions.
Here we go again. This man is a traitor and a warmonger.
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It can be both.
We are never, ever, EVER getting out of the "identify the problem" phase.
Trump is their God
Mmmm... no.
The Constitution does not have and never did have any intrinsic power or authority. It's always been the case that it only possessed any authority to the degree that the relevant officials chose to treat it as if it did.
And at this point, Trump has chosen instead to ignore its nominal authority. And in ignoring it, has revealed that it never really existed in the first place.
The only thing that can force the PotUS to submit to the Constitution is the will of the judicial and legislative branches, and neither the Supreme Court - corrupt and compromised as its conservarive majority is - nor the Congress - corrupt and cowardly as it is essentially in toto - has the will to do that. So the Constitution is just a meaningless piece of parchment.
That's not a reflection of the Constitution specifically though - that's the fundamental nature of all political authority.
No matter who or what or where it is, if one strips political authority down to its foundations, one finds that there's ultimately nothing there. It's always and necessarily built on a foundation of nothing. The closest one ever gets to a source of legitimacy for a particular authoritian system is that their own legislation declares them to be the authority. And it only holds for as long as there's a shared belief that it's legitimate. As soon as that shared belief is violated, it's doomed,
And that, as they say, is that.