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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course Trump wants to be an Authoritarian leader. Normal people realize he’s term limited and the clock is ticking so we’re not pearl clutching over it.[/quote]

He has three years left. Look at the damage he has done in one year. There will be nothing left in 3. He completely ignores the rule of law, and he has removed any guardrails that would hold him accountable. He will not leave office. And if you think he will be forcibly removed, who exactly will be doing that? Trump has somehow hijacked this entire country. He has nobody to answer to. [/quote]

The aforementioned pearl clutching.

He’ll leave. He’s about appearance above everything else. Being forcibly removed from the White House on worldwide television would be impossible to overcome. His ego couldn’t take it.[/quote]

You really don't get it, do you?

1. Getting his 3 nominees on the Supreme Court in his first term (including appointing Barrett just weeks before the 2020 election) has long-term consequences: Dobbs, college admissions no longer being able to consider race in admissions, the major questions doctrine (EPA clean power plan as the immediate effect), overturning Chevron precedent (court appoints itself the expert in regulations), school prayer, allowing religious beliefs to supercede anti-discrimination laws.

2. Firing of heads of independent agencies is one. (see #1)

3. Immunity from criminal acts within the "outer perimeter" of the office of the presidency.

4. The extortion agreements that now guarantee free legal services from specific law firms for Trump-approved causes--legal insurance for his brand of crooks

5. Flipping legitimate efforts on behalf of minorities and people with disabilities on their head, so now DHHS and DoEd focus on rooting out discrimination against whites, particularly white males. In fact, schools applying for grants to improve accessibility for disabled students are now seeing their grant applications denied/returned for rewriting because they reference accessibility and inclusion EVEN THOUGH they are federally required to provide such access.

6. Whatever you think about gender-affirming care, doctors had always been able to provide such care based on medical judgment, this is now banned for providers who also take medicare, medicaid, or tri-care. So, like Dobbs, interfering with the doctor-patient relationship.

7. No more nationwide injunctions from federal district courts (note that Biden actually tried to eliminate them and SCOTUS wouldn't hear the case--but when Trump asked for this they handed him the decision he wanted).

8. LOss of independence for the DOJ.

These are a few examples of structural changes we are going to have to live with, and even the most sympathetic courts will be stuck applying SCOTUS opinions. Note that when I say sympathetic, I do not mean unfairly biased. I mean courts no longer being ALLOWED to consider arguments they previously could.

It may be that some future presidents will respect what used to be traditions of the executive office, but the fact is that once undermined, they will never have the power they previously did.

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