there is something wrong with our Constitution if someone like this can become (and stay) president!!!

at least accepted the Constitution and their vow of office. For 250 years we had leaders who did not try to overthrow it completely, evem though some of them violated parts of it.

The founders feared that a despot could gain the support and trust of the people so they tried to put safeguards in the gov't system. But safeguards don't work when a leader is determined to destroy the system and gains power over both the Congress and SC.

I don't think there is much more the founders could hsve done to prevent a Donald Trump type from tearing it all down.

But there are things we can do to bring him down and restore the nation.

A Supreme Court that does the bidding of the executive was never envisioned, because its constitutionally granted independence was designed to prevent that.

of Ghandi's vision were not always peaceful. It was their physical fighting on behalf of Ghandi's belief in peace that brought that revolution to an end.

Does our democracy require a revolution to bring about peace?

we require a congress with a backbone.

and quite unfortunately, revolution may happen. We must remember that any government governs at the SUFFRANCE of the people, and since about 1995, I have noticed that Congress doesn't seem to care at all about what Americans actually want. They are more in tune with pleasing their donors.

Honestly, I'm so fucking sick of being told how people are going to fight for me while this shit stays the same. Trump is a symptom of the class war that has been successfully waged by the robber barons since 1935. They have played the long game, and now we have that Heritage Foundation asshole who is saying the revolution will be bloodless if the left lets it be.

Fuck all those assholes. People are fucking ANGRY. They are. And I'm not thinking the establishment of our party understands that at a visceral level. But I'm seeing 1789 and guillotine memes more frequently now, and people are talking about revolution.

I'm too old for this shit, nearly 70, so I don't want any part of that. So yeah, let's hope the new Congress has a fucking spine. They need to raise taxes on corporations and billionaires, get rid of Citizens United, change the rules of corporate governance to hold workers, consumers and the environment EQUAL in weight to profits, and give us Medicare for all Americans. Also bolster Social Security so it stays solvent. It is a SACRED TRUST and I've paid into both for the 40 years I've worked. Do those things and Dems would likely never lose another election for decades.

That there would be enough members of Congress that would let a president break the laws so blatantly.

... would be so completely CORRUPT. Back in the late 1700's and early 1800's, things were pretty straight-forward. If you committed treason, or if you were disloyal for any reason, you got hanged or you were shot by a firing squad. The conversation is over.

The current Republican Congress has given it all away.

Trump can be impeached and removed in short order if Congress so wishes. But, Congress doesn't so here we are.

It's hard to legislate honesty and morality - it depends on the elected reps and as the old adage goes, we deserve the government we elect.

The flaws don't necessarily lie in the constitution, a brilliant document, but the founders could not have anticipated such widespread corruption and dishonesty. I know I couldn't have.

There have been plenty of republican politicians that I have strongly disagreed with as regards policy, but many of them really believed in our constitution and wouldn't have gone along with such in-your-face disregard for our traditions and institutions.

The founders created a remarkable democracy that has been the envy of the free world over the years, but there are 21st century flaws among our voters, the media, and politics that they couldn't have expected. I don't know if we've jumped the shark yet, but I dread reaching a point of no return.

The electoral college and the undemocratic apportionment of senators are two major flaws that have allowed the takeover by a corrupt minority and the very possible end of the republic after 250 years. Jimmy Carter hit the nail on the head when he said the USA is a plutocracy.
The founders compromised a bit too much but they made something that lasted for a couple centuries.

and the Presidential Pardon (is it in the Constitution?) is open to great abuse as we have amply witnessed.

Impeachment is still there however and should be but corruption does override it alright........

impeach DJT immediately. After November mid terms the Democrats will be in charge, the first order of business will be impeachment. Trump and Vance gone, and the Speaker of the House moves into the Oval Office. And appoints a V.P.

Nixon was a party man, Trump is NOT! Nixon resigned and his V.P became POTUS. NOT THE DEMOCRAT WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE!

It’s congress that is the roadblock in this case. Gonna have to change that this election cycle

It’s crazy on steroids

I think the simplest, most effective solution would be a 28th Amendment stating corporations are not people and money is not speech.

There’s our revolution in one sentence.

I don't have specific ideas on how to fix impeachment and removal through the 25th amendment, but those need fixing with one.

We need another to put better requirements for presidents, and perhaps, all elected federal offices, from financial transparency to competency tests.

Follow that up with one judicial term limits.

I am sure we could come up with more; yours should be first.

and the most consequential, court decisions of the modern era.

like so many do. So much for all those republican members of congress who used to pull out their pocket sized copy of the constitution for the camera. Now it is just an annoying piece of paper that they may pay lip service to, while actually ignoring it in word or intention.

I'm sure there are many who don't even know what is in it, well aside from the 2nd amendment which they selectively use for their own political benefit. Hey, a lot of MAGA voters only care about the 2nd amendment They don't know or understand the rest of the constitution.

is the closest word.

and/or compliant Supreme Court that is the problem.

The Constitution is anti-democratic.

The 4 states where he still has an above water approval rating control 8% of the Senate, yet only have .01% of the US population. This is democracy? They have 800 times the power they should have in a truly representative democracy. (ID, WY, ND, WV)

While sucking off the blue states economic contributions like thirsty hogs on a hind titty.

Cut ‘em off, says I…

But there are children and Democrats there. The problem is the system that gives a relative handful of people disproportionate power.

Party, not just the one individual who is leading this chaos. Think about it, the GOP has been slowly building up to this moment in time, as a matter of protecting what power they have left. This is the same party that told Nixon he had to go.

Best hope the public is up to doing something about Trump and the Republicans. Otherwise, the climax to all this is going to do some serious damage.....across the board.

As people, they have accepted their bribes to not do anything to stop what is happening. And that goes for the republican appointed supreme court justices.

They fully intend to continue accepting their bribes. The main stream media will also continue to accept their bribes.

Voters continue to be confused about what is true or not, what is important or not. If they go out to the streets, they're made to be a joke.

"A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people."
-- -- Ambrose Bierce

occurred when a mutli-felon rapist seditionist con man POS who couldn't pass the background check required for ANY other job was allowed to run for PRESIDENT

Agree 100%

Describes me perfectly. Someone else mentioned "rage" and I'd add that, too. I think anyone with a brain is going to be feeling something.

The English language includes the words "treason" and "treasonous." The media needs to use those words to describe what we all see, and the public needs to wake up, take responsibility, and end treasonous practices, treasonous complicity, and the freedom of traitors to betray their fellow countrymen. Corrupted and complicit institutions needs to cooperate or be bulldozed.

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Nothing, really. He was (and remains) a shitty human being but you can't put a clause into the Constitution to stop a shitty person from being elected to the Presidency.

The Framers could have written in a clause that someone with a criminal conviction is disqualified from running for President and it would have kept his second term from happening. I don't think they ever foresaw a shitbag like Trump running for office, though.

What kind of Constitutional amendment would fix a situation like this? Recall elections? Get ready for those to happen with the same regularity as the midterms. There's already a mechanism for Congress to remove a President and it's extremely difficult for a damn good reason.

I really can't think of anything offhand. The "I don't care what Constitutional law experts say" bit at the very beginning of the tweet tells me that whoever posted it isn't looking for rational discussion, though. You can ignore reality all you want but it isn't just going to go away.

Too many people choose news filters that omit whatever news they don't want to hear. If American media in 2016 was the equal of American media in 1974, this country doesn't elect a Trump.

Not that I have an answer to the problem, though.

I feel like the American electorates of 1974 and 2016 are very different animals, though. Some things are still going to be the same, like the kitchen table issues, but it was a different world and a different time. Sadly a shitbag like Trump can find fertile ground much more easily than we like to think.

The media back then was a totally different landscape. Everyone was, for the most part, presented with more or less the same facts and might interpret them differently but there was still a shared reality. These days the media ecosystem is a chaotic mess of echo chambers and outright bullshit, you're certainly correct about that.

1974 was before my time but I feel like back in the Before Times the left and the right both genuinely wanted the best for America and disagreed on how to get to the desired endpoint.

Now the left and the right are working from totally different blueprints and the desired endpoints are wildly different and don't bear any resemblance to each other.