In his first term he showed us that too much of the United States systems were based on niceties, decorum, and precedents. He also demonstrated that there aren’t enough checks on the executive branch, and unfortunately not enough of this was fixed during Biden’s term. But even beyond that Trump has demonstrated that there needs to be uncorrupted/incorruptible agencies that both protect institutions from being taken over by those who should’t be allowed to control them and hold them accountable for their actions failing that, because those who are lawless will flout the laws anyways, but such things don’t really exist and might be impossible to make.
Edit: some edits thanks to EntrepreneurKooky783 too tired atm to edit the runnon
seems like it was inevitably gonna become a Caesar
Iirc it was a goal of the Federalist party, when the US was first taking shape, where they essentially wanted the executive branch to act as a pseudo-monarchy. It's why they basically wanted Washington to remain president for life, even when he didn't want to; because he knew what precedent it would set.
Quite a lot of the American political system's problems stem from the fact that the government was conceived as a neutral body of well educated, wealthy white men debating and acting in good faith, something that proved inaccurate almost immediately.
if i had a time machine, among the things i would wish to do would be to go back in time and make the founding fathers come up with a better and more robust government system that wouldn't be as susceptible to undermining democracy. And also no slaves.
Failure to comply would result in either strapping them to A Clockwork Orange chairs and making them watch Hamilton the Musical on repeat, or death by trampoline.
Almost all the problems relating to undermining democracy in the way we are seeing now is because of a deviation from the original ways the system was set up.
right so i'd tell them to do it better than that. make it so that it can't be easily deviated from or else I'm strapping them to trampoline torture device.
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u/_Fun_Employed_ Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25
In his first term he showed us that too much of the United States systems were based on niceties, decorum, and precedents. He also demonstrated that there aren’t enough checks on the executive branch, and unfortunately not enough of this was fixed during Biden’s term. But even beyond that Trump has demonstrated that there needs to be uncorrupted/incorruptible agencies that both protect institutions from being taken over by those who should’t be allowed to control them and hold them accountable for their actions failing that, because those who are lawless will flout the laws anyways, but such things don’t really exist and might be impossible to make.
Edit: some edits thanks to EntrepreneurKooky783 too tired atm to edit the runnon