Exactly. People are acting like fucking paranoid herd animals wrt what is legitimate, possible, etc, based on group approval.
If Trump tweeted it, we'd all suddenly be behind it.
If Pence did it, we'd all be cheering.
It's described as a constitutional theory, opinion.
Lincoln did a LOT of shit that was theoretically border line or unconstitutional.
The Lord of the Flies tribe behavior here is springing from our own paranoia and cognitive dissonance about how dangerously close this is getting to being over.
Shit, we are one returned from veto budget bill away from the Insurection Act being nullified for application against the swamp.
Exactly. People are acting like fucking paranoid herd animals wrt what is legitimate, possible, etc, based on group approval.
If Trump tweeted it, we'd all suddenly be behind it. If Pence did it, we'd all be cheering.
It's described as a constitutional theory, opinion.
Lincoln did a LOT of shit that was theoretically border line or unconstitutional.
The Lord of the Flies tribe behavior here is springing from our own paranoia and cognitive dissonance about how dangerously close this is getting to being over.
Shit, we are one returned from veto budget bill away from the Insurection Act being nullified for application against the swamp.