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We are full on in a constitutional crisis. Have been for a while.
It’s only a crisis if the Legislative or Judicial take a stand. So far, they’ve been surrendering. Even this tariff ruling is deliberately narrow to try to avoid Trump’s open defiance of the courts.
Write your congressman - pressure is something they care about, mid term elections are coming up and fear of losing is going to start driving them.
lol. Lmao.
A dictatorship is unavoidable. The question is whether there will be sufficient violent opposition to qualify as a civil war. No resistance will come from the Democrats, they’ve spent decades disarming themselves and sanctifying victimhood as a virtue to aspire to. A new party would need to form, and there’s no indication of that yet.