As much as I’d like Trump not to run, you really don’t want to disqualify people from running bcz of a criminal record. That opens us up to fake criminal prosecutions just to disqualify your political opponents.
Sure, but you can stack courts with judges who could do things like turn a blind eye to jury intimidation.
And like, do we know anyone who would doxx jurors and ask to the violent masses “won’t someone rid me of this turbulent priest?” Or who would stack judges?
A would-be dictator is the exact thing the founding fathers built a constitution to protect against, and this design is no accident. A popular candidate can’t be sidelined by a dictator.
Their failing was that they vastly overestimated the competency of the electorate, and the competency of the electorate was what their imagined vaccine against dictatorship was. Without it, the entire concept of democracy kinda falls apart.
As much as I’d like Trump not to run, you really don’t want to disqualify people from running bcz of a criminal record. That opens us up to fake criminal prosecutions just to disqualify your political opponents.
True, but that’s why people are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
Sure, but you can stack courts with judges who could do things like turn a blind eye to jury intimidation.
And like, do we know anyone who would doxx jurors and ask to the violent masses “won’t someone rid me of this turbulent priest?” Or who would stack judges?
A would-be dictator is the exact thing the founding fathers built a constitution to protect against, and this design is no accident. A popular candidate can’t be sidelined by a dictator.
Their failing was that they vastly overestimated the competency of the electorate, and the competency of the electorate was what their imagined vaccine against dictatorship was. Without it, the entire concept of democracy kinda falls apart.