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In reply to the discussion: TSF is giving MAGAts what they want: Permission to kill liberals [View all]markodochartaigh
(1,716 posts)25. During the Trump years
we often saw the regime's plans frustrated by the Constitution or the courts. The Republicans have been working on a new Constitutional Convention for decades and obviously they have been trying harder and harder to tilt courts at all levels their way. Another Trump term and a couple of states even temporarily taken by Republicans and all bets could be off.
As to the strength of the judicial system, it can be judged by those at the top, who have likely lived lives of social and economic privilege and much of whose self-image is vested in the system; or it can be judged by those at bottom of society when 95% of those incarcerated never received a trial.
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Eight years of Trump and his tactics OUGHT to have removed the gullibility, but, alas...
hlthe2b
Mar 2024
#3
"Fascists do not tell their followers who to kill, they tell them who to hate, then let human nature take its
sop
Mar 2024
#4
Agreed. And not just "libruls." Anyone who isn't white, xtian, straight or "disloyal". Plug for M. Cohen.
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2024
#6
Totally. Drumpf and Dad were convicted of housing discrimination in largest case in NYC history. My hope is that
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2024
#32
I wonder how he would feel if we applied his logic to our side of the equation?
Ford_Prefect
Mar 2024
#14
It's time to consider MAGA a domestic terrorist group and Trump a terrorist leader
tornado34jh
Mar 2024
#24
Do you not think that what he is saying amounts to potential terrorism against his enemies?
tornado34jh
Mar 2024
#29
Well either way, Trump is betting that the justice system is too weak to put him in prison
tornado34jh
Mar 2024
#33