• thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    everybody thought that our system of government was too well designed and had too many guardrails to let Trump do that much harm

    It used to. Then bush and Obama spent 16 years executive ordering themselves unprecedented new powers which surprisingly enough didn’t just vanish into thin air when their terms were over. And not Biden nor the legislature nor the courts have done squat to dial it back.