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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Actually, this disaster has been a lesson in our nation's structural resilience.
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 04:31 PM
Sep 2017

Rump not only may be held accountable (if the nation wants), but, far, far more important, the goals of the Koch alliance and others like them are continually being thwarted by a system laws they hold in even more contempt than Rump does (because they are very aware they exist).

Most of these laws, after all, were passed to protect the nation from people like them, and they're not finding dismantling them all that easy. Plus, many groups are monitoring and slapping them with lawsuits as soon as their termites within the government start breaking the various laws constraining them, including Obama's Protect Democracy.

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