All the more so when you consider how similar the situation was back with Bush, between Clinton and Obama. The USA has bipolar disorder, waffling back-and-forth between conservativism and slightly less conservatism, except Trump is blowing that wide open.
Also he stacked the courts. Remember that Congressional Republicans blocked all nominations for seven and a half years under Obama’s Presidency. A few months into his office they essentially declared him “not my President”, and just shut that whole function of government down, until they could get someone, anyone at all in there (it was supposed to be JEB, but he flubbed, so it came down to Ted Cruz vs. Trump, or as top Republican leadership themselves put it, “taking poison vs. being shot in the head”).
But that was then, whereas this time, Trump - if he wins - would do so entirely on his own, and possibly against the main Republican establishment (e.g. McConnell). This is different. This time would be for real. At that point sometime during those 4 (or more?) years we might see not only treason, but we really could be seeing another, better-organized (this time) coup - from either side, given those kinds of stakes (again: WWIII vs. not that). (also notable: this seems true regardless of who wins the actual election)
The fact that there are so many different treasonous acts under discussion here that it is difficult to keep track of which one(s) we are even referring to, is already by itself a HUGE wake-up sign, regardless of what comes after this. We are beyond yellow flags, or orange ones, or even red ones at this point - e.g. Biden may be supporting genocide, but Trump would f-ing do it himself, personally even, if given half the chance. And with all the various supporting characters that were put into place over the last 4 years - he seems very likely to be given that, would he not?
All the more so when you consider how similar the situation was back with Bush, between Clinton and Obama. The USA has bipolar disorder, waffling back-and-forth between conservativism and slightly less conservatism, except Trump is blowing that wide open.
Also he stacked the courts. Remember that Congressional Republicans blocked all nominations for seven and a half years under Obama’s Presidency. A few months into his office they essentially declared him “not my President”, and just shut that whole function of government down, until they could get someone, anyone at all in there (it was supposed to be JEB, but he flubbed, so it came down to Ted Cruz vs. Trump, or as top Republican leadership themselves put it, “taking poison vs. being shot in the head”).
But that was then, whereas this time, Trump - if he wins - would do so entirely on his own, and possibly against the main Republican establishment (e.g. McConnell). This is different. This time would be for real. At that point sometime during those 4 (or more?) years we might see not only treason, but we really could be seeing another, better-organized (this time) coup - from either side, given those kinds of stakes (again: WWIII vs. not that). (also notable: this seems true regardless of who wins the actual election)
The fact that there are so many different treasonous acts under discussion here that it is difficult to keep track of which one(s) we are even referring to, is already by itself a HUGE wake-up sign, regardless of what comes after this. We are beyond yellow flags, or orange ones, or even red ones at this point - e.g. Biden may be supporting genocide, but Trump would f-ing do it himself, personally even, if given half the chance. And with all the various supporting characters that were put into place over the last 4 years - he seems very likely to be given that, would he not?