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and of Congress to get around to finding a way to protect the government from an existential threat like Trump. Washington, in his farewell address, nailed the kind of character that Trump has, and why it shouldn't ever be allowed to touch the reins of power. I don't think they would understand the inability or incompetence, whatever it was, that stymied the Justice Department, rendering it completely ineffective in dealing with an existential threat to democracy like Trump. They would have crushed him before he had a chance to say, "I'm running again." The means exist for doing that, it's just that no one was decisive or competent enough to use them.