(06-18-2024, 09:19 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(06-17-2024, 03:56 PM)mikesez Wrote: It's not really Trump.  It's the severity of what he did. 

A constitution (any constitution) is most essentially the document or unwritten rules that say (1) who is in charge and (2) who will be in charge after that.

I judge people by how they uphold the constitution.
The Democrats do a poor job with certain aspects of our constitution, and Republicans have had their weak points as well.  They all do things that our founders didn't want done, but are perfectly normal in other countries.

But Trump failed in the one aspect that our constitution shares with every other constitution.  He failed to pass power predictably.  All along I suspected Trump would do exactly this.  You could say some of my posts from 2015 to 2020 were hyperbole or even delusion. Until January 6, that is, because January 6 validated all of it. 

Any excuse you could give, any comparison you could make, will miss the mark because of how January 6 strikes at the essential nature of what a constitution is.  It's more comparable to a coup, not a riot.

You do know that "passage of power" is a just rhetorical phrase, right?  The outgoing President doesn't actually hand over keys to the White House.  Trump didn't have Air Force 1 hidden in his garage, did he?