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minus-squareAugust27th@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·7 days ago Trump would be impeached Let’s assume that happens. What would that do, exactly? Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before? What was the net effect?
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down11·7 days ago Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before? In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup. Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy. What would that do, exactly? Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.
minus-squareAugust27th@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoReally? The closest thing in the US -- at all -- is from the 60s? Why do you suppose that is?
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoThe US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.
Let’s assume that happens. What would that do, exactly? Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before? What was the net effect?
In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.
Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.
Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.
Really? The closest thing in the US -- at all -- is from the 60s? Why do you suppose that is?
The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.