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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  845 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 3, 2022

    How do you know that? Isn't that such uncharted territory that it's impossible to determine how public opinion would evolve if Trump refused to leave the White House, and had enough Secret Service and Pentagon flunkies to hole up in there for a few weeks? The legitimacy of the presidency is something we the people grant, if the perception is there, right?

I don't want to get into this, but I will say, I know somebody who though recently retired, was formerly very high up in the secret service spanning multiple presidencies and this hypothetical you're throwing out there definitely would not have happened.





am_Unition  ·  844 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, it was very much a hypothetical, designed to encourage people to explore the relationship between themselves and the social contract that is government.