(December 18, 2016 at 11:28 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: My comment about us having elected a president, not a king, wasn't meant to be insensitive. I was attempting to bring some perspective in to make ppl feel better and more hopeful.
It all depends if checks and balances work. There's European precedence of them not working. Hungary and Poland. There's also Turkey. I guess noone in their right mind would still call it a democracy. If a president presides over bootlicking houses, all kinds of things are possible.