Quite a significant percentage of Trump voters, even three-time Trump voters, already regret their votes and have had the scales fall from their eyes to reveal the doting madman they voted into the most powerful political office in the world. One of the flaws in our Constitution (of more than a few) … is that there is no way for the people's representatives, preferably by simple majority vote, to call an election. I think this is a feature of parliamentary democracies that we need to adopt as a partial remedy to the dire mess we have wandered into. I think Erwin Chemerinsky is right... we have to find our way out of this thicket, but then, some way, somehow, we're going to have to face the fact that we need a massively revised Constitution in order to go on as a large scale democracy in charge of the most fearsome military power the world has ever seen. The prospect of vying for power with the likes of what will remain of MAGA is terrifying, but I feel that after the colossal failure of Trump and Trumpism we may have an opportunity, something like the aftermath of the Civil War, to make some major changes, to ensure that this cannot happen again. And that, indeed, will be the selling point: we must do this in order not to be saddled with another dictator. Whether we, as a nation, proceed by way of the first Constitutional Convention in 250 years, or only a long series of extremely carefully crafted amendments that have much the same effect, we will simply have to find a way to do this.
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Who gets to choose who will amend or re-write the Constitution? Scary notion. How much anguish am I prepared to live through in the days left to me?