There's a faction of DU that seems to delight in pointing and laughing at those of us who believed. . .

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40. Trump is an existential threat to democracy because most Americans, and I mean MOST, don't know what Democracy looks

like. Can't explain it, take it for granted, think that institutions in place will always be there and couldn't name a single issue in this election. They have no idea what the legislature does, what's in or not in the Constitution, and how the government operates. Many of those in the government have little clue.

The media never portrayed Trump as such. They sanewashed him, made him look like just a blustery spoiled billionare, not a demented raving lunatic, and so that's what people saw. And he's good at the smooth talk. He sounds patriotic. I'm looking at multiple sources, and I can see it. Most people are inside a media bubble and can't.

It still disturbs me that the power to make sure he never got back to the White House was in the grasp of the Democrats during the first two years of Biden's term. I'm thinking, if they really believed he was an existential threat to Democracy, they would have made Garland move his tail and get those cases into court, to have Trump adjudicated as an insurrectionist to disqualify him. With the evidence Congress presented, it would have been a slam dunk. The other precaution would have been to break the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court. We could have done that too. And that would have said, loud and clear, Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy and it's worth doing this to make sure we stop him. There'd be no immunity ruling. If they believed he was the threat they said he was, that should have been the first thing they got out of the way.

And I also think they'd be doing more, now, than they are, puttering around, enjoying the last few weeks of the perks of office, accomplishing very little in the way of stopping him.

I sacrificed to give over $2,000 to this campaign, most of it to Harris-Walz. That's a huge amount of money for me, and I did it because I believed Trump was, and is, an existential threat to Democracy.

Maybe that makes me a sucker.