This is an asymmetric battle. Biden can't criticize a power grab and grab it at the same time. If the voters don't dislike the power grab so much as to vote it out, they unfortunately have to suffer through it. This has always been the dilemma of Trumpism.
we're talking about people planning an outright coup. this is an abandonment of the law, and it's looking increasingly like civil methods will be insufficient to stop it. at some point liberal democracy has to defend itself.
All I'll say is that on every big question of the last 9 years, from filibuster reform, adding states, SCOTUS expansion, etc, I've arrived at the future conventional wisdom among liberals a couple years early. Here's hoping this one doesn't end up mattering.
The problem is pretty simple: if a majority of voters want a dictatorship there is no way to stop them without creating a dictatorship. Then everyone gets buyer's remorse and we have to find a way out. Is this horrifying? Of course. But that's the actual game.
In general, the extremes on both sides do not understand the consequences of their actions. They have a simplified view of the world. It is always their downfall. The question is how many others' downfall will it be. We saw this with COVID.
Yes. The actual truth is that our fellow voters could end the Republic if want to. We aren't doomed yet, because we can still stop them! But only if we out-vote them. And I don't trust the wisdom of the American voter right now.
I mean, if it's assumed voters are going to vote in a dictatorship, then what kind of dictatorship gives dictatorial power to its opponent for several months first? let us get in our blows now!
Someone once told me the Democrats are America's ER surgeons. We're all here to clean up the catastrophe caused by the patient (the majority of voters). If we start cutting up the patient in their home we're in deep shit, even if the patient won't come in to have their tumor treated.
