From betraying Ukraine and dispatching masked agents who killed Americans to deporting US citizens and pulling out of accords controlling climate change and Iranian nuclear weapons, the list of Donald Trump’s abuses is long and growing still longer, seemingly by the day.
Looking back decades from now, historians will see that at the top of this shameful list is Trump’s utter abuse of his pardon power. It started on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned more than 1,500 insurrectionists who, on 6 January 2021, had stormed the US Capitol.
More recently, as documented in astonishing accounts by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes, Trump has overseen a robust pardons market in which friends or relatives of criminals offer to pay millions for presidential clemency.
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I hope they will tighten up and amend any loopholes that got them into this mess in the first place.
Citizens united, first past the post, the two party state are the most important ones I think to fix.
That will need the constitution to be rewritten, or amended.
A two party democracy is like a society with bipolar disorder. It’s just a one party state with an extra flavor. That’s why the oligarchs and AIPAC et al pay off both sides.
When you have that kind of money it doesn’t matter, you’ll get your way because there’s only two parties to bribe anyway.
They’ll have to if they expect the rest of us to trust them going forward.