With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
I don’t think this is quite so true. If the only thing the resistance did to win back power was grab the presidency, that still wouldn’t be nearly enough. Trump and his body of oligarchs managed to corrupt the DOJ, the special counsel, the supreme court, an entire political party, and more. It is a machine far beyond one person that prevented the checks and balances on him.
I’m open to people’s suggestions for how to improve the three branches, but I’m sad to say, even when such suggestions bring up “a special commission, a voter-approved team of judges, a friggin’ AI”, there’s no absolute means to say that group won’t be either corrupted by special interests through insidious means, or completely ignored when their time comes to act.
Possible reforms I can think of are limit Supreme Court judges to 6 year terms. After that they would have to be reappointed. The President cannot issue pardons. Non-Supreme Court judges would be appointed by a bipartisan congressional committee which would choose a pool of candidates for a certain position. From that pool one would be chosen randomly. Congress must approve of all military action. The exception is when an immediate response is required. Then congressional approval would be required ASAP.
I’m sure a committee of scholars can think of more reforms.
I don’t think this is quite so true. If the only thing the resistance did to win back power was grab the presidency, that still wouldn’t be nearly enough. Trump and his body of oligarchs managed to corrupt the DOJ, the special counsel, the supreme court, an entire political party, and more. It is a machine far beyond one person that prevented the checks and balances on him.
I’m open to people’s suggestions for how to improve the three branches, but I’m sad to say, even when such suggestions bring up “a special commission, a voter-approved team of judges, a friggin’ AI”, there’s no absolute means to say that group won’t be either corrupted by special interests through insidious means, or completely ignored when their time comes to act.
Possible reforms I can think of are limit Supreme Court judges to 6 year terms. After that they would have to be reappointed. The President cannot issue pardons. Non-Supreme Court judges would be appointed by a bipartisan congressional committee which would choose a pool of candidates for a certain position. From that pool one would be chosen randomly. Congress must approve of all military action. The exception is when an immediate response is required. Then congressional approval would be required ASAP.
I’m sure a committee of scholars can think of more reforms.