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‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe
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The immorality of killing someone besides, and making him a martyr to his supporters that would make them more dangerous, there is a legal process to remove a president.
We think that this administration is driven by Trump, but once removed, the people who are behind much of his policies are still there. Venezuela is comparable at the moment. It is still controlled by Maduro’s administration.
The world needs to treat America as a pariah despite the economic pain. It needs to find a way to thrive without it.
America needs a revolution that demands reform in all three branches as well as the voting process. Our leaders and judges, given their privilege of power, should be subject ti term limits. First past the post should be replaced by a comprehensive voting process such as ranked choice.
People keep using the word martyr, but I'm not sure he can become that. There's no ideology bringing these people together, the disruption that he's causing is the unifying force.
If he's gone, there's no clear contender to continue that disruption, so there would be tons of infighting. I don't think there's a path to dominance from that kind of chaos. Trump only managed to get elected with the support of broken systems, which are being dismantled.
Agreed, but there's something that's like an ideology. They don't know what it is, but it comes in a red ball cap and waves a lot of flags. Usually from a giant truck. Whatever those things are are the "ideology". And his murder would definitely calcify a lot of that.
I mean, it's a cult. Plain and simple. What happens when a cult leader is killed? Besides the inevitable factional war?
Disruption is the thing that's like ideology in this instance. There's no path for a cult member to disrupt things enough to become the new cult leader. There's the chain of succession or whatever it's called, and that relies on the legitimacy of the system to be used. If that legitimacy is disrupted, the only people that can take the lead position will be the people controlling the military, which will be nobody in governance because the commander in chief will be dead.
This is one reason I guess the ICE budget is getting juice, so that when that change in leadership comes there is some force behind the change.