r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/Majestic_Spinach7726 1d ago

unless they make things so bad they bring the French Revolution to America

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u/Prudent_Research_251 1d ago

There's been hundreds of years worth of checks and balances/psyops to ensure we're all too keen on bread and circuses to revolt

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u/atoolred 22h ago

Not to mention that even if we did get rowdy, protection against popular uprising was planned for in the US constitution, having been drafted immediately after Shays’ Rebellion

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u/Prudent_Research_251 21h ago

Can you please elaborate on this a little?