Yeah, we’re seeing it a lot right now. Our government was designed to work when everyone is operating in good faith. It has nothing to defend against that not being the case
It’s designed to block a few bad faith attackers. The problem is the GOP decided to embrace bad actors from the core, and that rot has taken over the entire party.
Now it’s not a few bad faith actors, it’s half the electorate, who have also been systematically appointing their bad faith cronies in unelected positions.
Edit - And by a few, I mean less than 1/3rd. The constitution is designed for all political parties to band together and oust the bad actors in a 2/3rd majority.
But GOP allowed themselves to be fully taken over by fascists, and those that aren’t full fascists in ideology won’t even make a stand. Those that did are already out, and never tried to organize to stand together with the Dems to remove the zealots.
Yeah, we’re seeing it a lot right now. Our government was designed to work when everyone is operating in good faith. It has nothing to defend against that not being the case
It’s designed to block a few bad faith attackers. The problem is the GOP decided to embrace bad actors from the core, and that rot has taken over the entire party.
Now it’s not a few bad faith actors, it’s half the electorate, who have also been systematically appointing their bad faith cronies in unelected positions.
Edit - And by a few, I mean less than 1/3rd. The constitution is designed for all political parties to band together and oust the bad actors in a 2/3rd majority.
But GOP allowed themselves to be fully taken over by fascists, and those that aren’t full fascists in ideology won’t even make a stand. Those that did are already out, and never tried to organize to stand together with the Dems to remove the zealots.
Trump’s presidency highlighted just how much “spit and a handshake” the US government really is.