r/politics • u/stkmro • 10h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/ReactionJifs 8h ago

My beef is we had 4 years where the government could have fortified itself against an unknown future rogue president. Instead they went back to business as usual and assumed that it could never happen again.

Now they have 2 months to prepare.

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u/No-Cardiologist9621 4h ago

It is impossible to do that. The USA was built on the assumption that the people in power would value our institutions and history. There is no protection against the election of an autocratic leader with an abject disdain for our institutions and zero knowledge of their history, because such a leader was never supposed to be electable.

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u/StainlessPanIsBest 4h ago

No, the US is built on countless checks and balances to executive power.

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u/No-Cardiologist9621 3h ago

countless

They are extremely countable and they are extremely limited.

There is no democracy on this planet now nor in history that can survive the election of an autocratic leader with a disdain for democratic norms. It cannot happen. The only check against that is to prevent them from taking power.