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I argue that anyone who is saying America is facing an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" needs to pick up a goddamn history book. Democratic saint FDR set up concentration camps for US citizens of a certain race. Abraham Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus and oh yeah just a little thing probably isn't even worth mentioning *started a civil war with half the country that killed significantly more than half a million people*. And those two are particularly notable, but not alone (and their presidencies were both marked with things far bigger than anything I've seen Trump to yet)

FDRs New Deal policies might make him a darling to the left, but they were also wildly unconstitutional and the only reason he got them through was threats against the Supreme Court that he'd just keep packing the Supreme Court until they complied. Of course they'd never do that tod-- just kidding the left made the same threats under Biden.

Andrew Jackson committed a genocide against the Native people by continuing their forced removal from their homelands in the trail of tears. Sure is a good thing something like that isn't exactly the sort of narrative the left would prefer we actually remember and never forget to justify their postmodern deconstruction of US History. Don't worry though, the Supreme Court overturned the decision -- And Jackson ignored that decision and kept doing it anyway. The thing Trump hasn't done yet, but apparently would be unprecedented if he did. I suppose we just forget what happened due to the D next to his name?

Some people say that Trump using military troops on US soil is unprecedented. Ignoring Lincoln who literally started a civil war, President Johnson and Eisenhower both used the army army to force school integration. I guess it's ok though since that made him a darling to the left. By the way, Johnson and Eisenhower aren't alone -- he isn't even alone since the beginning of the 20th century, when most fools history begins.

I'm not actually a partisan either -- I've criticized the Republicans for decades when they were in the wrong. But what I'm seeing is the epitome of writers not even being real people. Instead, they're just mindless speaker boxes recreating whatever soundwaves they're told to make without any regard for the contents of those sound waves. Every time you hear someone say "This would be an unprecedented attack on our democracy", that's simply false -- it's fully precedented. Trump could do all kinds of horrible things he hasn't done up to and including genocide and ethnic concentration camps, and it's precedented in the United States.

The histrionic lies only serve Trump. He's in office for a second term in large part as the boy who cried wolf getting eaten.

But the other thing is that it's actually true that Trump isn't really authoritarian. He had every opportunity in the 2020 riots that took place over 6 months to be truly authoritarian, and many people would have supported it -- including a centrist like me. People don't have the right to burn down cities, if the police can't stop it for 6 months then I fully support putting down such riots with lead bullets. Trump didn't do that, despite having every precedent to do so. Dozens dead, billions in property damage, entire city blocks taken over and declaring themselves autonomous zones separate from the US government (which is definitionally insurrection, by the way)

In some ways, of course the protesters on January 6th must have just assumed you could riot without consequence now -- they'd just watched 6 months of riots without consequences. Imagine their surprise when their riot suddenly faced all the consequences for the entire summer of love?

Now don't get me wrong: I don't think Trump is small government. I also don't Trump wasn't somewhat responsible for his loss in 2020. I also don't think Jan 6th was good at all. He's imperfect and even his supporters in virtually every faction agree about that. During his Joe Rogan interview, he actually talked about some of the ways his first term was imperfect, which is a direct contrast to his opponent in 2024 who couldn't think of anything she'd change. My core point is about lies against Trump and the fact that press who repeat such lies are not even human beings, they're just parrots repeating sound waves they're trained to make.