• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    As someone from Europe: Almost all of that should have happened after the January 6 insurrection 5 years ago.

    He’d be sitting in prison in most if not all free and democratic countries.

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      He should have been in jail long before that, impeached with the help of his party and barred from ever serving as President again. A reminder that Trump is not the sole problem, and is more of a symptom of a bigger issue that has been allowed to grow for decades.

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      In those countries, he wouldn’t be able to do what he’s done with our Congress. Every day, he commits impeachable acts, but the only political body that could do anything about it is compromised.