[philistine]

The president has full discretionary pardon powers with no check or balance. It was inevitable that the power would be abused. You have an old system bursting at the seams of the maximalist modern world. Trump took advantage of your inadequacies.

[jauntywundrkind]

Nothing felt inevitable about having such an arch traitor to the US in power. With all of congress turning their backs on America & our constitution, and a Supreme Court rabidly helping him.

There were lots of checks built in. But all three branches of government are bolstering this worship of vice, death, chaos, disease, and suffering

[philistine]

> Nothing felt inevitable about having such an arch traitor to the US in power.

I vehemently disagree. The US has been headed towards authoritarianism for close to a century.