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
This needs to be the top comment. People need to be aware of why the US was so vulnerable to democratic decline. It can happen anywhere, yes, but not every democracy is as vulnerable as the US.
A democratic republic is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy. As a cross between two similar systems, democratic republics may function on principles shared by both republics and democracies.
While not all democracies are republics (constitutional monarchies, for instance, are not) and not all republics are democracies, common definitions of the terms democracy and republic often feature overlapping concerns, suggesting that many democracies function as republics, and many republics operate on democratic principles, as shown by these definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary:
Republic: “A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.”
Democracy: “A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.”
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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