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'Trump is really worried': White House officials reveal president’s next foreign target
(www.rawstory.com)
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Turns out checks and balances don't mean shit if no one actually defends them.
If your country survives this, you are due a serious overhaul of your supposed checks and balances and, more generally, of your political system. Too much assumes common decency, which the rest of your political and economix systems have been working hard to eliminate.
Electoral college? Hyper powerful president? That stuff needs to go.
Also helps when civics isn't taught in 70% of the school system
If congress, supreme court, and executive are majority same party — there’s no power left to check or balance.
If we had ranked choice voting, we might not be in this mess. Everything devolving into a two-party system has led us to this.