Our constitutional crisis is already here

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(09-27-2021, 03:30 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Indeed.  The rather insidious part of these types of discussions is the idea of the "preemptive strike" against those supposedly attempting to overthrow or subvert or Democracy.  After all, once we've been convinced that "X" group is trying to destroy the nation won't any (preemptive) action taken to stop them be totally justified?   It rather fits in nicely with the excuses used to justify Miley's actions, "we were afraid Trump would do 'X', so we had to do 'Y' to prevent the possibility."  We're rapidly approaching self-fulfilling prophecy territory.

Meh, I'd argue Trump being willing to bomb china for the hell of it was one of his selling points.