I mean, if Mark wrote that in 2004, he was dunking on an administration that was widely believed to be the worst ever.
(Obviously, we had NO idea what was coming.)
(Obviously, we had NO idea what was coming.)
Yeah, those drone strikes from the Obama administration were pretty bad.
I know what you mean, but the phrasing seems odd given that the US has gone through multiple transfers of power because POTUS was murdered.
If anything, this fact makes things much worse.
Consider Andrew Johnson, who wasn't even the same party as Lincoln. He was impeached by Republicans and in his run for presidency got his votes mostly from Southern whites. He pardoned basically all confederates. The murder of Lincoln definitely was a violent transfer of power from an abolitionist to a Southern apologist.
I am not claiming otherwise. I'm saying: it doesn't matter if the last president dies.
> Consider Andrew Johnson, who wasn't even the same party as Lincoln. He was impeached by Republicans and in his run for presidency got his votes mostly from Southern whites. He pardoned basically all confederates. The murder of Lincoln definitely was a violent transfer of power from an abolitionist to a Southern apologist.
What violence occurred during the transition of power? Who tried to stop the political processes?
There wasn't supposed to be a transition of power. A violent initiation to the transfer of power when transfer of power was not supposed to occur is a non-peaceful transfer of power.