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What absolutely hypocritical nonsense Bruce. That you have written one essay with an incisive crystal clear analysis of Constitutional law showing that Biden's bombing of Yemen is patently unconstitutional, only to less than a week later publish a ridiculous, liberal-biased, subjective, self-deluded, wishful-thinking, fairy story, falsely claiming that Trump was supposedly involved in an 'insurrection' on 'January 6' (when an insurrection actually entails using military force in an attempt to illegally take over a government) is so absurd that it is beyond laughable.

Not one person who entered the Capitol on 'January 6' (and then walked around benignly taking selfies and souvenirs) was even carrying a weapon, let alone attempting to overturn the most powerful government and military on the face of the Earth.

Trump's empty bluster claiming excessive presidential powers which never went beyond tough talk, and his hapless and unsuccessful attempts to use various procedural maneuvers to interfere with the 2020 vote count don't *remotely* rise to the level of "insurrection" - and somewhere underneath your bleeding-heart-on-sleeve whingeing, in your inner objective mind, you know full well that is the case.

Please politically grow the hell up and stop caricaturing a former 'professional' wrestling and reality TV star who couldn't insurrect his way out of a wet paper sack (even if someone handed him all the weaponry we've sent to Ukraine to do it with) some sort of dire Hitlerian threat to a 'democracy' which never existed in the first place in the US - a nation which was, well before Trump was even elected, properly declared by scholars to have already been an oligarchy for decades - in other words, a fascist state..

That you are so pettily partisan and deluded, you don't recognize that the true threat to democracy in this moment is the Brazil-style attempt by the 'Democrats' to imprison their political opponent in the *middle* of an election year, who is the massively popular front runner in the race, is both shocking and disturbing.

You are not a Constitutional scholar, you are a Constitutional cherry picker making up arguments as they blithely suit your own ideological whimsy, rather than objectively addressing facts and democratic sensibility.

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