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3. exactly right! removal by impeachment is the best institutional remedy but the senate is corrupted

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 22, 2020, 10:05 AM

Dec 2020

when people say "the institutions are holding", they mean the backup systems.

on any day, then or since, if 20 republicans were on board to do their duty to the constitution instead of to donnie, he would be gone.

it could happen today. but the senate has nowhere remotely close to 20 such republicans even a year later.

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Professor Timothy Snyder: "'The institutions held' is a really bad argument." [View all] Mike 03 Dec 2020 OP

The institutions should have upheld the rule of law and done their jobs. sop Dec 2020 #1

And they should have done that in the fall of 2016 KPN Dec 2020 #5

The Senate didn't exboyfil Dec 2020 #2

exactly right! removal by impeachment is the best institutional remedy but the senate is corrupted unblock Dec 2020 #3

The senate has nowhere remotely close to 20 such republicans even a year later or RVN VET71 Dec 2020 #13

"It's dangerous when really powerful people claim that they are the real victims." intrepidity Dec 2020 #4

Professor Snyder is spot on. It's not just a bad argument, KPN Dec 2020 #6

this is THE WAKE UP CALL as 2022 and 2024 can be horrible for democrats and IF GOP finds beachbumbob Dec 2020 #7

JMHO ..many Dems, most here have such PTSD from 16 there are minions more woke Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #11

The electorate is the most important institution, and that is the Hortensis Dec 2020 #8

+1,000,000! ancianita Dec 2020 #10

Which institutions? Many have been broken by DT-pos and his co-conspirators. 58Sunliner Dec 2020 #9

They certainly didn't hold Oscarthegreat Dec 2020 #12

Closest this country has ever come to complete takeover! bluestarone Dec 2020 #14