• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        11 months ago

        It’s literally a constitutional amendment my dude. This is how the democracy is structured, at the very foundational level. If you try to attack the lawful transfer of power, you aren’t eligible for office anymore. If a Democrat tries to engage in insurrection, then they too won’t be eligible. That you think defying the constitution is just something that everyone does sooner or later is very very weird.

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        11 months ago

        You’re suggesting the constitution isn’t totally democratic? That’s a shocker.

        I’m not 100% sure I agree with the particular clause of the 14th amendment, but the beauty of the constitution is if we don’t like it, we can change it. Nevertheless, the amendment writers’ position isn’t baseless and Donnie proves it.

        The other side takes anti-democratic steps all the time. If they kept them within the spirit and letter of the Constitution, that’d be a nice change.

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        11 months ago

        There have been plenty of Republican candidates that have never sought to interfere with elections. In fact, of presidential candidates, there has only been the one, as far as I know.

        This isn’t a “tank the Republicans”, this is “we can’t abide Trump, specifically”. No one accused McCain, Romney, Bush, of anything like this.

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            11 months ago

            I’m old enough to remember and I don’t recall anything so severe as the second coming of Hitler. The worst I recall was Gingrich and Dick Chaney being considered pretty vile, and Bush Jr being seen as lacking competence.

            Trump feels unique in how obviously corrupt he wants to go.

            As a point of comparison, no one ever even broached the topic of impeachment with W Bush. As disappointed as folks were with facets of his presidency, currying personal favors and working to subvert elections were not anywhere in sight.

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        11 months ago

        It’s not what it looks like!

        The fake justification for the coup fell apart years ago so maybe this is the only defense left.