The Good News: We found out that it takes a malevolent POTUS more than four years

[Tom Rinaldo]

...to destroy our 250 year old democracy. The Bad News: We found out that a malevolent POTUS, in four years, can almost destroy our 250 year old democracy.

Way too close for comfort.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. He could have if there were two brain cells to rub together under that rug of his.

That's the scary part.

[empedocles]

6. Well put

[Karadeniz]

2. He couldn't have done it without the Senate and conservative media...

[spooky3]

4. Agree. And the fight isn't over. Thanks, Citizen United--not. Nt

[Turin_C3PO]

8. Right now, a lot of Republicans

have been rethinking Citizens United because in 2018 and 2020 we as Democrats were able to use it against them. Nonetheless, we definitely need to somehow get big money out of politics. I don’t know how we can do it given the 6-3 advantage conservatives have on the Supreme Court.

[empedocles]

9. And, as Maher notes, a lack of common sense on the part of some Dems

[Defund, etc,]

[RKP5637]

10. So true, the system does not work when those elected set about to destroy it from within.

So many people in the US are so damn brain-dead when they vote. They just can't seem to comprehend the big picture of what is occurring and they fall for misinformation and propaganda ... must as, "The Cult of Trump."

[Tom Rinaldo]

13. True, but there are always potential accomplices waiting to see which way the wind is blowing

If we had a healthier media environment, Trump could not have gotten close. If we had a less robust free press, Trump would have succeeded. So much respect has been invested in the Presidency by Americans over many generations. Our political system never developed anti-bodies to this degree of abuse at that high a level.

[RKP5637]

3. Imagine if someone like him comes along again, but seems normal, and destroys it covertly! n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. Can you spew that much hate and vitriol and seem "normal"?

[RKP5637]

22. Trump in some ways bordered on it with all of the people that supported him and still do. If he

had left out his crazy acts some he might have seen more normal, I think. Apparently it does not take too much to make some people believe something is normal. With Trump, I think a common core was/is racism.

[Turin_C3PO]

14. We must be forever vigilant.

We can’t rest on our laurels and not show up in 2022. We must be in this fight for the long haul.

[RKP5637]

23. Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[exboyfil]

5. About 23K votes away from darkness

AZ, GA, and WI. I said to my daughter before the election that it was a coin flip and it was.

We better figure out what happened in Wisconsin. The polls were way off. It hasn't got a lot of discussion because it was called early, but Trump's people have been tromping around the state trying to flip it.

[marmar]

7. The malevolent POTUS also exposed a lot of the fundamental flaws in that 250 year old democracy....

..... he was an (awful) magnifying glass.

[LeftInTX]

15. I know

I learned the only thing keeping us from a dictatorship is the "honor system".

[RKP5637]

19. Absolutely true, we learned there are a lot of paths to be exploited in our democracy

for malevolent people set to exploit the democracy and bring it down.

[Turin_C3PO]

25. Yes.

I’ve learned in the past four years that our executive branch has far too much power. A better way of governing would probably be a parliamentary system like Canada, the UK, etc.

[marybourg]

11. That's only because this one was was a malevolent

nincompoop . The next one might be a malevolent politician Then we’re finished.

[Generic Brad]

16. Agreed!

A competent monster would have surely finished us off.

[LeftInTX]

17. Yes, it's scary

Always thought there were checks and balances, but there weren't.....

[Tom Rinaldo]

21. Actually there were some, some crumbled and others weakend

but did not get totally washed away during one four year presidential term. The remaining levees were close to failing.

[RKP5637]

24. Yep, absolutely ... the danger has not passed, not at all. If Trump had been a slick politician

we well might be in a world of hurt right now with the fools that support him.

[Newest Reality]

18. The ANTIPRESIDENT!

[BootinUp]

20. psychotic might be a better word

I grew up in a stable democracy for the most part, wtf happened man? I saw the signs back in '03.

[world wide wally]

26. The scariest part is that half of the country supports his effort to tear down America in the name

of the USA.
Think about that.

[jimfields33]

27. Mail ins saved us

We have Georgia for mail ins and then most states go back to absentee with reason required. I hope seeing the results those that mailed in will show up to vote beginning in 2022.

[Midnight Writer]

28. It was Trump's incompetence that foiled his plan.