▲ 813 ▼ Barack Obama Is Also Scared Shitless That Donald Trump Could Win Another Term: Report (www.vanityfair.com) submitted 3 years ago by eurekaphoenix@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 371 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] demlet@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago (2 children) The amount of stuff we learned through Trump is just a formality is rather stunning. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 2 points 3 years ago It used to be that there was an unspoken risk that ignoring all these norms would result in your being summarily tossed on your ass in the next election. But thanks to Murdoch, Limbaugh, Stone, Gingrich, and all the right wing media pushing hyper-partisan, no-compromise, the-other-guy-eats-babies politics, combined with a court system that refused to rein in the lies that were poisoning our discourse for decades, eroded that critical check on political society. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) All of civilization is just formality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] demlet@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago True, but I mean, at a certain point pretending that laws matter is what separates a society at peace from a society at civil war. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 2 points 3 years ago It used to be that there was an unspoken risk that ignoring all these norms would result in your being summarily tossed on your ass in the next election. But thanks to Murdoch, Limbaugh, Stone, Gingrich, and all the right wing media pushing hyper-partisan, no-compromise, the-other-guy-eats-babies politics, combined with a court system that refused to rein in the lies that were poisoning our discourse for decades, eroded that critical check on political society. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) All of civilization is just formality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] demlet@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago True, but I mean, at a certain point pretending that laws matter is what separates a society at peace from a society at civil war. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] demlet@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago True, but I mean, at a certain point pretending that laws matter is what separates a society at peace from a society at civil war. permalink fedilink source parent