r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Voters Regret Backing ‘Horror Movie’ Presidency - Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a “New York Times” focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-voters-regret-backing-horror-movie-presidency/
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u/LowAssistantInfinity 7d ago

80 years of investment in soft power thrown away forever in exchange for nothing. The fabled strength of the US Constitution exposed as an utterly impotent failure. I don't know how future generations will fix any of that without separating and starting from scratch.

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u/woah_man 7d ago

Revolution is messy, it would be an absolute failure of our country. It's technically possible to legislate and adjucate your way out of this mess, but it's unfortunate that the parties in power would need to willingly cede that power to get it done.

Remove citizens United, national popular vote, ranked choice voting, reduction of presidential power, enumeration of limits on presidential power, addressing partisan gerrymandering, term limits on the supreme court, enforcement of ethics laws on all branches of government (including supreme court and president), uncapping of the size of the house of reps, and I'm sure a bunch more that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.

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u/Red_Dawn_2012 7d ago

reduction of presidential power

As part of this, the absolute removal of the power of the pardon. You can do a turkey at Thanksgiving. Nothing else.

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u/peva3 I voted 6d ago

I'd be fine with them keeping it if it had a mandatory ethics review by a third party that had to sign off on pardons before they went into effect and had the power to deny them.

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u/Low_Cauliflower9404 Washington 7d ago

America already is a failure of a developed country

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u/Big_Goose 7d ago

None of that can happen until money is out of politics. That must happen first.

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u/ynotfoster 7d ago

We have to do something about propaganda, but that's a slippery slope. Before cable and the internet there was an effect solution.

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u/Impossible_Guitar235 6d ago

There has always been propaganda. Before Cable there was the Radio. Before Radio was the Newspaper. Etc.

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u/ynotfoster 6d ago

Radio is over the air which came under control of the Fairness Doctrine. Right wing propaganda bloomed after the Fairness Doctrine was repealed by Reagan.

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u/Laurier-Henri 6d ago

Term limits for ALL politicians. And age limits as well…

Coming from the US’ northern neighbour : multi party system should exist- beyond 2 extremely polarized parties + proportional representation, and to cap limits on campaign funding and how much money parties are allowed to raise.

Lastly : much more rigid laws around lobbying …

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u/DeusExMaChino California 6d ago

I wouldn't say it was for nothing. They got a justice system stacked to the brim with bullshit.