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Laws are only worth something if they're enforced. Trump's been Teflon his entire adult life, whether he was doing coke and real estate frauds in the 80s or embezzlement and racketeering in the 90s or child sex trafficking in the 00s or President Crimes in the 10s and 20s.
Biden's AG looked into Trump for four years and came back with "There's literally nothing we could possibly prosecute him for so we won't even try." And this was a guy who got nailed on 34 counts of whatever it is Alvin Bragg indicted him over (paying off a prostitute with campaign donations, I think?) in a trial that ended with no actual punishment being assigned.
Like, whatchagonna do? Laws are clearly for little people. Trump (and Musk and Eric Prince and Ron DeSantis and Bill Gates and Robert Richards IV and Prince Andrew and - really - anyone with the correct volume of money and power) can do whatever they damned please. Nobody is going to stop them.
I used to be hopeful that mechanisms for structural reform would prevail, but the wealthy seem hellbent on welding shut all the safety valves and unplugging the control panels to get a surge of power without anyone being able to stop them. Or even know how long before everything goes critical.
But my centrist, apolitical friends don't seem worried. I'm sure it's fine.