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So... who else here keeps having to get over moments of major anxiety and dread about the U.S. election next week? (lemmy.world)

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And it won't even be over on Tuesday no matter who wins.

I just have to start distracting myself when it happens.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 22 points 1 year ago

If you want a distressing read:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/what-happened-when-the-us-failed-to-prosecute-an-ex-president

The last time this happened, he got away with it clean, for basically the same reasons: It’s difficult, uncertain, unrewarding and dangerous to try to prosecute a popular insurrectionist, and the default choice of just leaving him alone is none of those things.