re: #324 ObserverArt

Why? He has no respect for it.

Because in democracy, institutions matter. Even if he’s a terrible person (he is) and has no respect for the institutions himself (he doesn’t), we have to preserve the institutions and norms as best we can. On a lot of levels, a functioning democracy - at least as how it is understood to exist in the Post-WWII epoch - relies on institutional traditions and norms. The two greatest threats to our constitutional system were Jackson ignoring the Supreme Court and ordering the Trail of Tears, and the southern war of treason because of an election result. I’d say the third was FDR’s court packing scheme, but the failure to impeach Trump may be rising up the ranks pretty fast. All of those incidents were (are) based on the parties involved rejecting established norms and traditions.