Here's how Trump pulled off his fascist coup. (This insight came to me yesterday, and came with the power of epiphany.)
Trump (aided and abetted by his slimy followers -- right up to and including "the originalists" on The Supreme Court) are well aware that there is no way to stop him -- even though the need to stop him is screamingly (and increasingly) self-evident.
How did this happen?
As the Founding Fathers pointed out; for the Constitution to work, it would be necessary for a critical mass of citizens - and politicians - to be virtuous people.
(Jeffrey Rosen, at Philadelphia's "The Constitution Center, has written a brilliant book about virtue - both civic and personal. It's titled "The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.)
Tragically, there is no longer a critical mass of virtuous citizens and politicians, and so we are no longer a basically virtuous people, ready and eager to discharge civic responsibilities. (Ubiquitous indoctrination by pleasure-seeking, unregulated Cowboy Capitalism is responsible for this reversal in America's psychological landscape, and I address the matter in my Bibliography below.)
Being a vice-ridden - and therefore vicious/vice-ious man - Trump simply runs roughshod over virtue -- not unlike paying $130,000.00 to bone porn stars -- and flaunts his corrupt vility, which in turn turns the attention of the populace to readily-available purchaseable pleasures, replacing any - even vestigial - acknowledgement of virtue's existential, epistemological and ontological primacy. (The etymology of "vicious": https://www.etymonline.com/word/vicious)
Even with virtue bloodied and beaten, it might seem there would be legal recourse to rein in a fascist dictator.
But here, my epiphany comes into play.
The Constitution only DEFINES the three branches of government (their operation and their implicit system of checks-and-balances), WITHOUT MENTIONING THE OVERARCHING SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES ITSELF.
And so, it is impossible to bring any lawsuit to restrain a tyrant because any such suit would not "have standing."
To "have standing" such a suit would have to cite the constitutional foundation-and-justification of the lawsuit, and THERE IS NONE.
There is nothing - not a word - about maintaining the system of checks-and-balances which IS written into the Constitution.
Of course, with the so-called "originalists" on the Supreme Court now serving as ass-licking, totally surrendered lackeys, there is no need for Trump to "pull this trump card."
But there it is -- an outrageous backstop -- just in case any "glimmering apparition of virtue" were to unsettle the conscience of His Malignancy's sympathizers-and-enablers who now make up what was once a virtuous, thoughtful, and august judicial body.
"The Supremes!"
Bibliography
Unregulated "Cowboy" Capitalism (In Memes): Capitalism Is The Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation In America And In The World -- A Propellant Rendered Nearly Invisible By Plutocrats (And Now, Kakistocrats) Who "Divide And Conquer" Via The Idiocracy's Age-Old Manipulation Of Public Opinion
"The Pursuit of Happiness," A Book By Jeffrey Rosen About The Indispensable Centrality Of Developing Virtue As The Cornerstone Of Any Kind Of Genuine Happiness
The Incipient Unraveling Of The Western World As Seen By Visionary Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1929)
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-incipient-unraveling-of-western.html
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