Jonathan V. Last
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Instead, everyone's just like, yep, just Trump being Trump.
In many ways, he had another Truth Social tweet over the weekend where it was like, I have the power to destroy everything.
You know, I can, do you remember this?
But he's not wrong, right?
And this is the, like, you can just do stuff.
This is all people like when I say got to demolish the ballroom on day one and people like, oh, but you can't because then I'm like, no, you can just do it and then move on the next day to something else.
Right.
I feel like that is one of the lessons of the Trump administration.
You you can just go do the things you want and who's going to stop you.
You're describing a sclerotic system which no longer functions.
Right.
And so, and this is, I mean, Sarah doesn't like to hear this.
Sarah really doesn't like this.
But if you look at our system and you decide that it is too sclerotic to function and that it can't actually work anymore and a bunch of the things that we thought were guardrails were actually just the honor system and a bunch of other functions that were built in by the Constitution turned out not to function at all.
Like the 25th Amendment doesn't work.
The impeachment clause doesn't work.
Right.
And so if that is the case, then you can do two things.
You can just say, well, maybe it'll resolve itself someday.
We're just going to keep going.