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Originally Posted by Pierre
It would seem, quite troublingly, that the USA is no longer a democracy.
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The USA is what it always has been. It’s a constitutional republic, federally structured, with extensive rights for federated states to conduct their own affairs.
The constitution - democratically agreed by all states - bans insurrectionists from office. Interpretation of the constitution ultimately falls to constitutional courts. Each state has a Supreme Court to handle such matters, though this will undoubtedly end up in final appeal at the federal Supreme Court eventually.
Nothing has changed, except that for the first time in that country’s history a man is trying to get (re) elected to the presidency after fomenting an insurrection to try to stop himself getting booted out after his first term.
Nobody was really talking about it as all the attention was on the civil and criminal charges he’s facing, but it was always likely to be the 14th amendment that gets him in the end.