KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:19 pm
it is especially important, at least in my mind, to uphold our institutions in the face of threats of violence
Yes.
It is not an academic or theoretical point: letting threats of political violence, or the prospect of political violence, affect the treatment and resolution of a matter
is the erosion of the rule of law. It
is the advancement of autocracy.
There will not be a singular moment when the then-lighted sign DEMOCRACY goes dark, and the then-unlit sign AUTOCRACY is switched on. That happens in a series of boring and technical and minor things.
Democracy gets bit to death by a duck.
The milquetoast notion of 14A-3 taking a back seat to the "will of the people" is, sadly, a good example.
Our predecessor citizens, through their elected representatives at the state level,
solved quite clearly how to confront the problem of an insurrectionist oathbreaker holding enough sway over enough people to be a plausible candidate for reelection. An insurrectionist oathbreaker is no more eligible to hold the office of the President than is a 34 year old or a person born in Kenya.
To suggest that the popular will should substitute for the supreme law of the land IS to erode the rule of law, and IS to permit the advance of autocracy.