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If a guy making odious jokes on his large social media account is enough to constitute a "danger to democracy" why are we even bothering with such a rotten structure? If the institutions of the US are in such a condition, when does someone who believe that decide it's time to give up the ghost?

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The structure is rotten BECAUSE him and trump and all of these other clowns are making these "jokes" that aren't really "jokes" because he has to make excuses after making them. It didn't start with him. It's trump "asking a question about Obama's birth certificate" and Fox News "just asking questions/just making innocent jokes" but repeating them an infinite number of times.

It's death by a thousand cuts.

The rhetoric is just as bad on the other side.

What rhetoric? Simply explaining what they’re doing?

This isn't an "odious joke". This is a call for violence.

Nobody believes it's a question, any more than we believe that Henry II was merely inquiring why no one would rid him of that turbulent priest.

It likely doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act. But it's the kind of thing that earns one a stern talking to from the Secret Service. And if somebody actually does take him up on it, there may yet be charges.

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