• freebee@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    I don’t follow USA politics to every detail: has there been an impeachment attempt? Problem is not me intellectualising, it’s representatives of the people: Congress & senate, not doing their jobs. Their job is not being a yes person to the president. It’s representing the people. The culture where they are headless chicken was installed long before trump. Yet they and their institutions are the way to end this properly, cleanly and with enough representative power so it does not lead to civil war. The president needs to seek approval of Congress for policy, not the other way around. Some random murder in the street scenario is a recipe for disaster for everyone. It creates an enormous power vacuum. The Congress way avoids that. It is the least worrying path this can go down…