“Constitutional Crisis” Is Crappy Branding

Most normal people don't care about this. This is the same flaw as the Democratic argument in October 2024 that “democracy will end.”

One of the central Democratic talking points in fall 2024 was the Trump 2.0 would represent “the end of democracy,” and that messaging apparently did not resonate well with people. 2024 was a complex election emotionally and economically, and it is true that most people didn’t have a good chance to understand Kamala, and what chances they had, they didn’t seem to like. Biden also would have lost after that debate. Trump 2.0 was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the Crooks shooting, save for a week or two where it seemed like Kamala had a legit chance.

And now here we are, and democracy feels a little weird — democratic oligarchy? — but it’s not “over.” Then Obama made the whole thing worse by cracking jokes with Trump at Carter’s funeral, mere months after basically saying Trump was the biggest threat to the republic in 170 years. It makes the entire thing (politics, that is) seem like a game that doesn’t care about average people, and in reality, that’s probably what politics is.

But since Trump got back into the big chair,