I actually think the constitutional problems presented by Trump are grave.
Our country has vested magical powers in The Word of the President. And for years, significantly bc 3,000 Americans died, we've expanded the power of The Word (abetted by many #Resistance heroes, btw).
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Imagine impeachment coming down to whether Trump committed a high crime and misdemeanor by joining a conspiracy with Russia via a Tweeted signal that Scavino wrote, not Trump?
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Now there's the other issue: Trump aides are admitting they *steal documents from the Oval Office.* Someone has stolen The Word, and we're all applauding, bc whatever people are breaking all protocol rules, we assume, HAVE to be more sane or at least fit to govern than Trump.
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This is even showing up in the Kavanaugh hearings, where everyone admits he was really appointed by an unelected network for right wing activists and the Republican Party couldn't be happier about that.
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But EITHER, Kavanaugh was nominated by The Word, by someone who conspired with a hostile foreign power to obtain the power of The Word, in which case the nomination is illegitimate.
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OR, Kavanaugh was nominated by the Federalist Society and the Koch Brothers, which has their own magic, I'll grant you, but not the Constitutional power of The Word.
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There are a goodly number of respectable right wing lawyers, firm believers in a fiction called orignalism, who are arguing without thinking about it that it doesn't matter that Kavanaugh was selected by someone without the power of The Word because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I suspect once Kavanaugh is confirmed--nominated either WITH the power of The Word and therefore the bounty of election crimes--or he was nominated without the power of The Word but Republicans will make an exception to belief in The Word just this once--the GOP may finally care.
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Political Science major here in LA that's been interested in the Office of the Presidency for a few decades Also recently been really into full honesty Didn't vote for the guy but was afraid of what a Clinton presidency would bring - looking back, damn I'm dumb
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