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This is the kind of thinking that led to complacency after the 2020 election.
Trump is not the cause of America's rot; he's a symptom. Even if he's gone, there's a vast web of right-wing media, wealth, fascists, bigots, racists, and voters who are still willing to blow it all up to give the rich more money.
Somehow, we have to deal with the anti-intellectual oppositionally-defiant idiocy that is rampaging through 40% of our population before we can start making true progress again.
I also want to point out that this administration is a symptom not only of the rot within the population, but the growing power of the executive branch.
It's been a concern since the Great Depression and WWII and over the decades it has been becoming more and more possible that an administration like this could happen.
Now it's being tested and I hope we're able to fix it.
Sadly, it won't be fixed until (unless?) a Democrat is elected President again, because Republicans seem quite willing to cede their own power to their own President, as long as he promises to hurt the right people with it.
I lurk in the conservative reddit to see what they say about stuff, and the other side of the aisle also realizes this problem. They're well aware that any time the presidency flips colors the incumbent can just undo every EO from the previous administration.
Seems that one thing both sides agree on is that Congress needs to get back to legislating. Now how we do that, I'm not sure, easier said than done.
Change the filibuster to be number of majority seats, plus 2, or 60, whichever is less. Or something along those lines. The 60 vote threshold creates disincentive for crossing the aisle because it gives the statistical extremists the most power. Meanwhile, requiring some opposition support but not an outrageous amount removes a ton of barriers which produce legislative gridlock.