What has that to do with anything? Trump and his backers has long since shown that any law or even constitution is worth no more than the paper it was written on.
You misunderstand how most dictatorships work. You either crown someone absolute king - and there’s less than a handful of them - or you pretend to work within a constitutional framework which is the most popular form of dictatorship by far and the only realistic option in the US, at least for now. The latter introduces limits to what a dictator can do without breaking the illusion that everything is working as it should.
I can’t overstate how much effort the garden variety dictatorship puts into making everything seem “business as usual”.
If Trump goes there he might as well try to formally replace the entire constitution.
I know this one! What’s the last sentence of 12th amendment?
Non-US person here, had to look it up:
Which means the theory of running as VP to have the President resign on Day 1 will be rendered moot.
Duh. Make him speaker of the house (an unelected position), then have the vice president & president resign. Do you even know how to fascist?
What has that to do with anything? Trump and his backers has long since shown that any law or even constitution is worth no more than the paper it was written on.
You misunderstand how most dictatorships work. You either crown someone absolute king - and there’s less than a handful of them - or you pretend to work within a constitutional framework which is the most popular form of dictatorship by far and the only realistic option in the US, at least for now. The latter introduces limits to what a dictator can do without breaking the illusion that everything is working as it should.
I can’t overstate how much effort the garden variety dictatorship puts into making everything seem “business as usual”.
If Trump goes there he might as well try to formally replace the entire constitution.