[BeetleB]

> I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls.

This isn't due to one man (Musk) or a rogue government agency, or even the executive branch.

This is Congress, which tells you how bad things have gotten.

[cryptonector]

> This is Congress, which tells you how bad things have gotten.

Ok, but to be clear, Congress gets to. Congress has done about-faces like this before, yet the Republic is still here.

[BeetleB]

> Ok, but to be clear, Congress gets to.

Obviously - there's no implication of processes not being followed.

My point, which mirrors yours, is that this isn't the result of a rogue actor. It's a result of collective action.

[DFHippie]

It isn't Congress writ large, is the Republican caucus in Congress. And the Republican caucus in the SCOTUS.

[BeetleB]

True, but the point being it's a large percentage of the government, representing a significant percentage of the population.

[subsistence234]

actually it's the voters.