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"Any structure taller than 200 feet must be approved to not endanger commercial planes"

Sounds like a power that needs to be better defined in law.

I found the subtitle interesting, but false: And future administrations will learn from his extrajudicial success

First, I'm certain that Republicans in the House and Senate will instantly recover their love of free markets, small, local government, personal responsibility, and fiscal conservatism as soon as a Democrat president takes office. The resulting ideological whiplash will be ignored by the press in favor of trumpeting how the president is violating principles nearly sacred to the most important subculture in the USA.

Second, if Trump succeeds in squashing midterms and gets a third (and fourth) term, there really won't be any "future administrations". The USA will have an autocrat.

Third, this ignores the looming Trump dynasty. I know Don Jr is the usual favorite to succeed Trump, but my money's on Eric. He's a little smarter than he looks, and behind every successful man is a strong woman. He's got Lara behind him, and she's smarter than everyone else in Trumpworld.

Fourth, should we actually get another elected president, it will be because a huge tidal wave pushed out almost all Republicans. There will be major reworking of federal government, including regulatory agencies, and the judicial system. What used to be "norms" pre-Trump will be codified, preventing this kind of bullshit in the first place.

Thus far I haven't heard Democrats announce any policies about revamping the federal government. They absolutely should, and there are a lot of really obvious targets that would get widespread support, especially if they applied to their own administration. A law that says "Yes, you can prosecute the President" would get Republicans salivating if a Democrat were in office.

Similarly, a law re-asserting Congress' right to declare war. The not-a-war in Iran is not popular, and is probably already illegal. Clarifying that might get Republican support if we told them that it tied the hands of a Democratic President.

When I asked my Congressman about it, he said (very barely paraphrased) "We're gonna run on health care". Which sounds utterly incompetent to me.

I personally have come to the conclusion that the Dems should have sacrificed Clinton in 1998-99 so as to set a precedent that presidents must fly right or we'll fire them. Yes, even though Ken Starr and his subordinate Bret Kavanaugh were corrupt, partsan hacks.

My Rep is Lauren Boebert, who is famous, a Qanon, and absolutely incompetent. Let's circle back after primaries to see what changes.

I can't imagine that it would have helped. Republicans routinely elect gross incompetents and clear offenders of all sorts, and "Clinton got a perfectly legal and consensual blow job two decades ago" is a meaningless excuse. If it weren't him they'd cite someone else, or just make up a fiction, and Boebert is wont to do.

I think ditching Clinton would have been a fine thing to do, but I'm under no illusions that things would be even the slightest bit better today. Republicans have invented themselves a complete fake universe and no precedent matters.

Either Democrats win the midterms, Congress starts doing its job, and Trump is a lame duck for the next two years, and then Democrats put roadblocks in place to keep anybody from ever doing this again, or the next wanna-be tyrant is going to follow Trump's playbook, except faster and harder and with less restraint, and then it's over.

I'm not worried about a Trump dynasty if there are fair elections, though. Whatever Trump has, neither Don Jr. nor Eric have it.

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