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Trump pushes to swap Electoral College for popular vote (I support this. In fact, let's make this retroactive, effective immediately.)
U.S. Attorney General Sessions says Mueller probe has taken on 'life of its own'
Bill To Protect Mueller Investigation Approved By Senate Judiciary Committee
“Misleading and Unsupported By the Facts”: House Intelligence Democrats Slam GOP Russia Report
The Trump administration's scandals and embarrassments, in one place
With Tax Scam Complete, GOP Caucus Unveils Budget Blueprint to Attack Safety Net
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What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?
Pleading the Fifth Doesn't Mean Michael Cohen Is Guilty
The Supreme Court and the New Civil War
Study shows undocumented immigration doesn't increase violent crime (No shit)
Waiting Game, through the steps of asylum seekers
Extraordinary Aliens: Six Cartoonists on Immigration to the U.S.
New York Gov. Cuomo sends ICE cease-and-desist letter, calls arrests ‘illegal’
Over 7,000 Bodies Have Been Found at the US-Mexican Border Since the ’90s
Successful Immigration Program to End April 30
The Painful, Endless Wait for LGBT Asylum Seekers
Right to work? In Silicon Valley, visa fight as symbol of blocked American dream.
ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship
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Date: 2018-04-28 09:32 am (UTC)I mostly disagree here for one important reason. If 45 is impeached due to corruption, things might not change, but if he's impeached due to collusion with Russia, then I'm certain Pence will also go, because it's clear he knew about some of what was going on, and it's equally clear that if he's going out, 45 will do his best to try to drag Pence down along with him. If the GOP loose the president and vice president to what will be billed in the mass media as treason, they'll be in impressively terrible shape - worse even than after Nixon resigned.
From any reasonable POV, one of the biggest problems with US politics is the GOP, which has become one one side a white supremacist party, and on the other side, a party of the psychoathically greedy rich, with a layering of dominionist nutjubs over both sides. Shake that up in some dramatic and destructive fashion, and they'll need to regroup into some new configuration.
That will take a few years, which will give US politics some breathing room, and the result is likely to be better. While the GOP has always been horrid, and has been expressively the bigot party ever since Lyndon Johnson single-handedly ended the Democratic Party's open support for white supremacy, it got far worse in the 90s with Gingrich's "Contract On America", and has continued getting ever worse along these same lines. Derailing that in a sufficiently dramatic fashion (and a president effectively impeached for treason will definitely do that), and we might end up with a notably less toxic GOP. Sure, the 70s & 80s were far from perfect wrt politics, but they were well better than now, and I'm fairly certain dealing a really serious blow to the GOP will help at least as much as all the proposals suggested here.
Also, while the filibuster is problematic, it's also pretty much the only stop we have to a tyranny of the 51% majority type of rule, and I think US politics would go even worse with it gone. It's well worth noting that while part of the reason that no previous President had quite so terrible a Cabinet is 45 is a uniquely terrible President, another reason is the end of the filibuster for Cabinet appointees, which previously guaranteed an overall bland competence, or at least the appearance of such, that was in most cases accurate.
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Date: 2018-04-28 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-29 02:37 pm (UTC)