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The take away isn't that they're not incompetent, they absolutely are, it's that the bar to getting away with all of that was way lower than anybody ever thought. All those checks and balances, laws and conventions, and distributed powers ultimately mean nothing if someone controls enough of the government and the one thing Republicans have been highly competent about is making sure a majority of every branch of government has been packed with loyal Republicans. Once that was done nothing else mattered, it's Calvin Ball from here out so it literally doesn't matter that they're all knuckle dragging morons.
At this point there are only three possible ways of fixing this. In order from best to worst the first possibility is that MAGA doesn't feel bold enough to outright ignore the midterms and they lose their majority in at least the legislative branch. The second possibility is that they fuck with the midterms so obviously that the military feels compelled to actually follow their oath to defend the Constitution and stages a military coup to oust MAGA. The third and worst possibility is that the military fails to act and it's up to regular citizens to stage a revolt which would likely lead to a second civil war. Best case scenario in that case is that the military either sits things out or else fractures and sides in part with each side. Worst case the military sides with MAGA.
MAGA has the military. That’s a foregone conclusion. They’re above the law. Period. There will be no justice. Because if there were, we’d not have a convicted felon in the White House.
America is done.