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"There's no way to stop him" is hyperbole.
Comment by GregBahm at 16/08/2020 at 20:12 UTC
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I'm open to having my view changed. The first barrier against this corruption was the justice department. Since Trump can unambiguously abuse his control over the justice department, there's no solution there.
The second barrier against this corruption was congress. Since the senate republicans failed to force his resignation after his open corruption in collusion investigation and the Ukraine, there's no solution there.
The third barrier against this corruption is violent revolution. I don't see the will among liberals to lead a successful civil war, but that is the only solution remaining. Liberals should not expect the military to support them in such a war, because Trump's corruption does not actually violate the constitution.
And that is what all this comes down to. The US government is just a poorly designed system with a security vulnerability. It functioned for 200 years without an concerted attack on that vulnerability, but in the year 2020, a billionaire businessman, following the lead of his peer in Russia, and attacked that vulnerability and made our democracy just like Russia's democracy. Simple as that.