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Cirsium

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17. Would it?
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:41 PM
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I agree that reckless calls to “burn it all down” are dangerous. But it’s also dangerous to treat any use of constitutional accountability as equivalent to dismantling the Constitution itself. If lawful mechanisms can’t even be discussed without invoking collapse, that’s a problem in its own right.

I don’t agree that what’s being called for would require “canceling the Constitution.” Impeachment, indictment, prosecution, and even the 25th Amendment are all constitutional mechanisms. Using them may be contentious or politically difficult, but that’s not the same thing as tearing up the system. There’s a big difference between enforcing existing guardrails and abolishing them.

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