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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
People overestimate the threat of reactionary anti-institutionalism in the first term, but underestimate it in the second term. The first Trump term threatened to be a wrecking ball but landed like a hand-swung sledgehammer in just a few places. The worst damage (SCOTUS capture) was dealt by McConnell’s senate and Federslist society, not Trump. The second term looks like a moderated, mellowed rubber mallet but will likely land like a wrecking ball.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Potentially the first president in the modern era not worried about re-election?
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littleshrimp
@littleshrimp
I’m sure if trump wants a 3rd term SCOTUS will backflip the constitution again to allow it.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
You understand how the Constitution and SCOTUS works, right? Also, while we're here the only 3-term (trying to win a 4th term before dying) was a Democrat / progressive. 😂
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Article 22 isn't exactly ambiguous. "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"
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littleshrimp
@littleshrimp
I know how SCOTUS used to work. This SCOTUS to the highest bidder thing is new plus their habit of being constitutional originalists only when it suits them is suspect.
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