My Comp Gov textbook defines a "regime" as the rules and norms that govern political behavior and structures. In the US, the Constitution is the regime, but there are other norms that have governed our political system.
Trump is bulldozing them like the East Wing of the White House.
The partisan gerrymandering is one example of simply making up things as you go along and kudos to Democrats for realizing that unilateral disarmament in this environment is folly. When it comes to something like the presidential pardon power, it was assumed that the President would be bound by public virtue and a sense of the majesty of the office and his obligation to serve the law. Trump's selling of pardons is, it seems, within the scope of the letter of the law. He can be impeached for this behavior, but not prosecuted. He will, of course, pardon the thugs like Greg Bovino and the grifters like his entire family on his way out the door.
The norms, on other words, aren't working.
We need new rules.
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