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Proud Liberal Dem

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1. If we survive the Trump Presidency
Mon Dec 18, 2017, 04:23 PM
Dec 2017

We need a special commission appointed to figure out how to shore up the Constitutions/checks and balances in our Constitutional system and close some of the loopholes that have been used to damage how Congress and the Presidency function in the pursuit of political power. It is shockingly frightening how so much of how our government has been operating for decades through a series of seemingly unenforceable norms and traditions. Up until the last few years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have respected a series of norms and traditions but, bit by bit, piece by piece, many of these norms and traditions have been chipped away at, particularly by Trump rather aggressively just in the past year alone.

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If we survive the Trump Presidency Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2017 #1
Absolutely agree! peggysue2 Dec 2017 #3
It's like the Romans Turbineguy Dec 2017 #6
And Bork ended up paying the price Turbineguy Dec 2017 #2
He did, indeed! peggysue2 Dec 2017 #4
well, this wasn't the only factor. unblock Dec 2017 #5
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