Politico magaozne has a piece ….
‘Hurricane Trump Is Coming — And Washington Hasn’t Bothered to Prepare….’
NOBODY in his right mind wants a second Doandl Trump 4 years….
The piece is about a book that wants America to enact ‘reforms’ to stop Donald Trump from being himself….
THAT would be impossible….
The fact is the Government and Congress are NOT gonna change centuries of things to accommodate and check one guy who has been charged criminally and has other indictements coming at him….
The ‘system’ actually flushes out the crazies….
Trump failed to hold on to his first government job….
We saw that in the 2022 Midterm electionas that actually went of without much of problems….
If the Big Guy gets back after ALL his troubles?
We ARE ALL FUCKED…..
In fact, the premise of the book, and the broader conversation, was that it would be acted on in some future America, either 2021 or 2025, that had definitely turned the page from the 45th president — a country in the mood for a 21st-century update of the post-Watergate reforms that had aimed to Nixon-proof the presidency.
That country, though, hasn’t come into being. And now, as polls suggest that “after Trump” may be turning into “between Trump,” almost none of those reform ideas have become reality, either.
Which means that, if Trump does retake the presidency, he’ll be returning to an office that differs “minimally, if at all” from the one he occupied during his chaotic term, in the words of Ian Bassin, whose Protect Democracy nonprofit is one of the capital’s highest-profile institutional-reform outfits.
Though that grim reality has been well-known to folks who followed the reform efforts in 2021 and 2022, it’s been lost on a larger Washington population that spent those years focused on the pandemic, inflation, Jan. 6 investigations and other more pressing subjects. A number of reform advocates told me this week that they’d started getting alarmed phone calls from folks whose interest in the state of guardrails had suddenly rebounded after a Washington Post poll suggested Trump really might win (and a Trump CNN town hall demonstrated that he was just as determined as ever to shred political norms).
“Almost every reform that we propose in that book ended up being in a bill in Congress,” Goldsmith said this week. “Basically, with a couple of exceptions, neither Congress nor the executive branch have done anything concrete to address the many gaps in norms and legal constraints that Trump made apparent during his first term. There was a lot of discussion about how we had to have reform. It just wasn’t a priority.”….
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What happened?
Rather than a dramatic betrayal or shocking failure, it’s actually a familiar Washington tale of shifting priorities, wandering attention span, legislative obstruction and relentless partisanship….