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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I agree. But I think a silver lining is that people are now looking around and saying what you just wrote. Trump caused people to examine the problems with our democratic republic, and in doing so, astute people have realized we live in a quasi-oligarchy, and what existed before Trump was elected was not much different economically than what has existed since. Pre-Trump and post-Trump worlds aren't much different for the poor and middle class except as to those adversely or positively impacted by his trade polices. The "rigged" economy Trump promised to fix remains largely "rigged." Only some of the beneficiaries have changed. It was a neoliberal world before and it remains one today, regardless of our PT Barnum POTUS's populist posturing. (How about that for alliteration?)
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That's some serious alliteration.
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Again, did anyone really see it as legitimate?
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Yes. Not always. But for most people other than yourself, usually. Trump is delegitimizing things that people saw as essentially legitimate.
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Our adversarial system is capricious, political, and biased, and its penalties are medieval. It needs to crash and be not only be rebooted but rebuilt.
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Building a legal system with legitimacy is really hard, which is one reason why the tend to evolve instead of getting burned down and replaced. It doesn't "need to crash." That's nonsense. It needs reform. You sound like a fat man saying he's going to keep eating ice cream until he's really obese, because that's the kick in the pants he needs to get in shape.
