Republican despot Donald "Jim Jones" Trump broke the system. We relied more on personal integrity to make governing function than we ever realized. He destroyed the notion of truth (we used to assume politicians lied, but we never knew that it could become the base immorality).
Trump destroyed the notion of integrity. He destroyed the notion of a common good. He cracked open everything that had been envisioned as a roadblock to tyranny. If Trump had won in 2020, we would be under his authoritarian tyranny already. If he wins in 2024, democracy will die.
America trivialized and dismissed the importance of demanding honesty, integrity, and decency that was supposed to be codified in our Constitution with Oaths—we think of them as quaint relics of olden days, but we now know they are vitally important to democracy, ignored at peril
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." This is the only qualitative requirement for the Office.
Among all the many accusations against despot Trump, the most outrageous violation of the sworn Oath—which he lied when swearing and was illegitimate every day since—is his ongoing attempt to overthrow the government via the Jan. 6 insurrection. America needs to enforce Oaths.
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