@marsden64.bsky.social

The Civil Service protections for most federal government employees are part of a law passed by Congress to limit the ability of a President to fire or demote feds for political reasons. I think the Supreme Court just ruled that that is contrary to the separation of powers in the Constitution.

In the 2016 Presidential Election primary, Bernie Sanders at one point declared that Hillary Clinton was "unqualified" to be President. Clinton of course went on to win the Democratic Party nomination but lose the general election.

Part of the American population will be willing to resort to violence if future elections don't go their way and if they think violence might succeed; the January 6 insurrection proved this. They will be less likely to succeed - and there will be fewer of them - if we prepare for them.

If you wrote a fictional novel in which an American President started an unprovoked war on his own terms with a mid-level regional power -- and lost -- any publisher you tried to have market your book would turn you down because the premise was implausible.

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