Hello everyone, it’s been months since I last posted a diary (or comment for that matter) on here, but it doesn’t mean I have given up the fight. I am as passionate about politics as I ever was (in fact, I check this site quite regularly for the latest political updates); it’s just that I am preoccupied with some other things in my life currently.
I just posted this commentary on my Facebook page (yes I’m aware FB isn’t exactly popular these days, but I still find it useful to some degree as a social media platform) and I thought I’d share it with the DKos community:
The beautiful thing about America that a lot of people fail to appreciate is that while it is prone to making stunning mistakes like the election of Donald Trump, it has an amazing ability as a country to correct itself. This makes the United States unique as a hegemonic superpower; because the other would be superpowers — Russia, China, and India — do not share this institutional self-righting capacity.
There is no one in Russia to stop Vladimir Putin. He has helped himself to another 6 year term in office which extends his grip on power in the Russian Federation to 24 years. China’s communist party recently changed the country’s constitution to remove presidential term limits — potentially paving the way for Xi Jinping to serve for life. India’s populous democracy is ill equipped to deal with the excesses of Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.
On the other hand, Donald Trump — who came into office believing that he may be above the law given the circumstances surrounding his improbable victory — is slowly realizing that one of the tenets of American exceptionalism is a robust constitutional democratic system that cannot be easily tossed aside.
The Republican Congress may have relinquished its constitutional responsibility to act as a necessary check and balance against the Trump Administration, but the system has proven strong and resilient enough to provide some level of accountability notwithstanding.
We see this manifested in the blockade of some of Trump’s more dangerous policies through the courts, the Special Counsel investigation against him lead by Robert Mueller, the general critique of his administration in the Fourth Estate, and the growing resistance movement against him which threatens the Republican majorities in Congress in the upcoming midterm elections in November.
Large segments of the American population may be manipulated, at various times, by populist rhetoric or divisive politics, but history has shown us that the USA is not a country that entertains or tolerates would be dictators within its borders for long. America may have been errant in allowing Trump to assume the highest office in the land, but it is poised to correct itself and take care of that problem. Just watch.
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