And so it begins…

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Remember, the Constitution is just a really old piece of paper if the people entrusted to enforce it choose to ignore it.

    There is a non-zero chance that Trump could move to suspend the Constitution entirely, backed by a complicit Cabinet, Congress, Supreme Court and several state governments. And at that point, we would literally have to hope and pray that the rank-and-file military is on the side of the people, which is far, far from guaranteed. Because if they’re not, you can claim your Constitutional rights all you want, but you’ll be doing it with the other prisoners inside of whatever re-education camp you’re assigned to.

    Heck, there’s a non-zero chance that the American voter just gives off a collective “meh” and just apathetically lets Trump seize total power. We just saw a few million people do just that.