Oh, jesus, that's hilarious. Sad, but cuts for a reason. It looks and smells like the same ballpark as politics. But when does it pass a tipping point into constitutional crisis, or worse? That's not a rhetorical question, even if it's unanswerable. It may be the case that the tipping point is self-evident when it comes, but I've had to cop new strategies for dealing with circus that the administration is and constantly second-guessing how soon society will grind to a halt. (The cracked article with 5 strategies helps--remember that outrage is now a currency exchanged on most of the internet, so don't get played.) Part of the impetus of this discussion was me finding out how other people are dealing with this on a daily basis. The best I've come to find is a selective news diet, meditation, and homework.the fact that progressives turned protesting into the new brunch is a point against.
It's fairly obvious to state that this isn't politics as usual. It's still definitely politics, though.
The 2000 election was a constitutional crisis. It sucked. The outcome was sub-par. But we survived. I think I'm less shell-shocked than most of my friends because my understanding of governance is one of custom, not of rules. Yeah, rules are nice and rules are the ultimate arbiter but if you're politicking and run afoul of "rules" you done fucked up a lonnnnnnng time ago. Government is a collection of people who argue about shit in order to determine the best path forward. It's currently headed by a man who doesn't even really want to enter into discussion. If you are a firm believer in rules, this is bad for the government. If you believe more in custom, this is bad for the head. Young'uns forget that when Reagan was shot, Al Haig sort of inadvertently declared himself de-facto President. It was interesting for about a week. Thing is, it takes a lot of decisions to make a government and most of them never make it to the President.