Justin Amash: Dershowitz’s view would destroy our constitutional system washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0… // At some point, scholars and commentators are going to have to start grappling with the consequences and its aftermath or aftereffects. If the constitutional system is destroyed, or
2/ what I would call the Second Republic--the republic that started in 1865--what are the after-effects? We have a Russian asset in the White House who aims to move closer to being a Russian ally. We have a GOP in the House & Senate who are actively and openly complicit with
3/ Trump. We have a SCOTUS that cares not a whit with voting rights or ensuring free and fair elections, or curbing the power of corporations & the ruling oligarchy. If there is a credible argument that the Second Republic is over, that the constitutional system that the military
4/ , the Intelligence Community, and federal law enforcement have pledged to defend has been destroyed, then what obligations does those institutions have to obeying a Russian asset in the White House and answering to Russian stooges in the Congress? If I were looking at the US
5/ as a foreign country, I would assess a period of high instability. Perhaps, if the Democrats win the trifecta in 2020--presidency, House, & Senate--then we can look at the necessary massive legal changes necessary to form a more robust Third Republic or third constitutional
6/ system. It means that only Democrats running for a "big structural changes" or a "political revolution" understand how more dire the situation has become. If corruption was a problem today, after Trump is found not guilty and given free rein to solicit all forms of foreign
7/ interference, up to and including engaging in extortion and bribery, how much greater is the problem of corruption? To those Democrats who look at this travesty of an impeachment outcome and do not see the highly probable political and social instability ahead, please get out
8/ of the race. Go home. Drink tea. Take a nap. Do anything than gaslight us into thinking we are in a period of normal politics and your Republican "friends" and "colleagues" are ready to behave. Scholars have been trying to convince journalists that the GOP is an anti-system
9/ party engaged in asymmetrical warfare. They reject the legitimacy of the Constitution; the legitimacy of the Democratic Party; the legitimacy of the Democratic voters; they reject the legitimacy of the Intelligence Community and the FBI; the DOJ is run by criminal consigliere;
10/ the entire right-wing rejects a free press; free and fair elections; the rights of minorities; the rights of women. For decades, they believe in rule by authoritarian, totalitarian leader deeply rooted in religious beliefs. They found their ruler/king in Trump. It is time to
11/ start thinking about the unthinkable because if this constitutional system is being destroyed/is destroyed, there *will* be consequences outside your constitutional expectations.
