(July 18, 2016 at 2:12 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What Clinton (and Minimalist) have failed at doing is making me so terrified of Trump. People, Trump most of all, forget that the president is not a dictator.
Two problems spring to mind:
1. The vacant SCOTUS seat. I don't want Trump nominating the next for-life justice. Given the age/health of at least one other (Ginsburg), there's a non-zero chance he could have two picks during his presidency.
2. While you're right in that the President is not a dictator, and checks and balances still exist, I fear that the midterm elections could give him a lot more power as the batshit crazy outsider strategy suddenly becomes a proven winner with people who, frankly, have no problem watching the world burn.
So, it's not that Trump, himself, is so incredibly dangerous (although I shudder to think of him in the Situation Room under any circumstances), it's that a Trump victory may be a legitimate harbinger for darker times, where we continue to slide politically and culturally, and rot within.
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