• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It will be reversed when the next guy sits in the chair.

    It will be reversed IF a next guy sits in the chair.

    For now, with congress cucked, executive orders are basically as good as laws.

    Your argument would be believable if we weren’t in an active war with Iraq as triggered entirely by executive order instead of congress.

    If there is no next guy, this is the new norm.

    J6 happened last time, this time they have 22,000 ICE agents under Trumps thumb.

    If you want me to believe there will be another guy after Trump, you’re going to need to convince me there is even a single believable non-violent way that can happen despite the above.

    Wanting to believe things will magically change back to normal is not enough. It wasn’t enough to change actual laws like citizens united, and it won’t be enough to change this behaviour back now that there’s a well paid army of ICE to prevent it, and a private oligarchy that benefits from it more than the norm we’ve left.

    And in that norm, yeah, I agree, executive orders aren’t laws. But that’s not the way it works now, nor is there any believable way that we get back to it peacefully.