David Lauter is NOT correct. He's not even close. I suspect he's among the crowd of people who massively overconfident in the strength of our systems and institutions. Above all, Trump's term proved beyond any doubt that our system is worthless if one of the two parties refuses to actually govern in good-faith. If they're willing to disregard the oaths they take and just let the president off the hook, our system of checks and balances becomes worthless.
Further, the catastrophe already occurred during a "perfect call" with the new president of Ukraine. That was as brazen an attempt at cheating an election you'll ever see. Then he tried to falsey declare victory multiple times, demanded they stop counting votes and had his underlings try to have legal votes thrown out. Did it work? Apparently not, but were we literally a few individuals'-worth of morality away from a successful coup? Absolutely.
David Lauter is NOT correct. He's not even close. I suspect he's among the crowd of people who massively overconfident in the strength of our systems and institutions. Above all, Trump's term proved beyond any doubt that our system is worthless if one of the two parties refuses to actually govern in good-faith. If they're willing to disregard the oaths they take and just let the president off the hook, our system of checks and balances becomes worthless.
Further, the catastrophe already occurred during a "perfect call" with the new president of Ukraine. That was as brazen an attempt at cheating an election you'll ever see. Then he tried to falsey declare victory multiple times, demanded they stop counting votes and had his underlings try to have legal votes thrown out. Did it work? Apparently not, but were we literally a few individuals'-worth of morality away from a successful coup? Absolutely.
To pretend otherwise borders on nihilism.