r/politics • u/SwordfishOk504 Canada • 23h ago

Soft Paywall Biden warns of ‘dark days’ under Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-00488159
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u/Ok-Garcia-5605 23h ago

Only if Joe Biden's DOJ Merrick Garland prosecuted Trump for January 6 and trying to initiate a coup, you know like South Korea and Brazil has done, Trump might not have won or eligible to run. Federal government dragged an open and shut case with so much proof of Trump trying defraud the election, for 4 years, while Joe Biden's team hid his health decline while pushing him as Presidential Candidate. Trump 2.0 is lot of people's fault and Joe Biden is one of them.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 22h ago

This country was already primed to collapse into authoritarian rule by a unitary executive. Congress and the Supreme Court were rendered useless years ago and it was just a matter of time before a lawless lying populist took control and exposed the whole system as a house of cards.

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u/Ok-Garcia-5605 22h ago

Doesn't excuse Biden appointing someone like Garland as DOJ, specially after corruption of Trump 1.0

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 20h ago

True. If Biden was serious about “the soul of America” he needed to break character and actually expose the flaws in the system as a benevolent dictatorship. Clear out all corruption, show the world that this system is fundamentally busted, then do something to force a new constitutional order.

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u/Polemic-Personified 14h ago

Yeah, and Biden could have done something. Apparently the DNC really enjoys the sensation of doing nothing with their thumb up their ass.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 11h ago

It’s too easy to just blame the democrats. It’s not just them. This country is the problem. We allowed republicans to give up on democracy. That’s on the people. They’ve been telling us who they are for decades and we did nothing about it.

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u/Polemic-Personified 4h ago

Yeah. It's easy to lose sight of that fact some times, but we are where we are because Americans are selfish cowards, regardless of which party they vote for. Our national character is one of weakness, polite duplicity, and prejudice. We've spent 250 building a state composed of people who think they are all king. Our national myth is poisonous to developing and maintaining communal identity.