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The stupidity is not that Trump wants to do this
The stupidity is that behaviour like this has been normalized by the American public and American leadership
They're all taking steps to degrading and destroying themselves and no one ever wants to do much to stop it.
Fewer than half of the US states have recall elections
https://ballotpedia.org/States_where_state_legislators_can_be_recalled
Same for voter-initiated ballot initiatives
https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_initiative_or_referendum
edit: I clarified this in a comment below, but for voter-initiated ballot initiatives I only meant for passing new legislation (21 states). If you also count state constitutional amendments and vetoing legislation then there are 26 states.
30 some states have voter sponsored ballot initiatives, most are constitutional amendments, a few are just statutory, I've never heard of recalling a legislature with that process, which takes over a year to make happen, from getting signatures from voters, getting those validated, having electoral commissions ok the vote, then waiting for the actual vote.
the link I posted says 26 states have voter-initiated ballot measures, but 5 of those 26 only allow for constitutional amendments or vetoing statutes, not writing new statutes which I should have been more clear is what I was referring to.
It appears you are correct, I had read 30 some, but all enshitified search is giving me is 26, as is now the case, all sources provided are citing the same statitstic it appears, the sources being machine written by and large.
It islikely not incorrect in this case, just saying, search sucks now, I know it can work better, because it did. Google eats bags of diseased geriatric flacid dicks. It's gross. Like, if you want to eat bags of dicks, they could do better. But I digress.
The Mississippi one is crazy. I voted in that ballot initiative when I lived there. It was for medical marijuana with very lax laws. But then the mayor of the richest county in the state took it to court. The ballot initiative even got the required votes in all the old districts too, planning for this, but the Supreme Court of MS is as dumb as a bag of rocks. Did the state repeal the voter ID law or the new flag that were both passed the same way? Hell no!
So glad I left that ass-backwards state.
… “won’t someone rid me of this damn ~~priest~~ or politician