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>>oceans+(OP)
From a semi-corrupt country, ie being somewhere between Africa and the developed world, I can only suggest to fellow USians courage and patience three more years. Times will come good again. A corrupt leader is very difficult to change and things seem grim because he has captured all three forms of power.

>>tsouka+9Q
A civilised country can not be destroyed by one king, nor saved by a new leader.

America has checks and balances, and they have failed. There’s no “wait 3 years”, that’s over, as America will always be one election away from anarchy or worse.

The only way out is the Republican Party impeaching him and spending the next 10 years undoing the damage at the top and next 40 year rebuilding civil society.

>>hdgvhi+aV
> America has checks and balances, and they have failed.

America pretended to have checks and balances. Everyone just turned a blind eye to the massive holes in them and pretended things were going to be fiiiiine.

>>crote+0Z
Our own "founding fathers" knew that no system could stop someone determined enough to destroy it from inside.

"The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both..."

— John Adams

And our government doesn't have that necessary firebreak. Justice is part of the Executive.

Source: https://www.mass.gov/guides/john-adams-architect-of-american...

>>sleigh+Rh1
The Justice Department isn't the same as the judicial branch. The Justice Department is (among several other things) the lawyers who represent the government in front of (judicial branch) courts.