Four years ago, we failed to hold Trump accountable. Here's how we can do so over the next four years. | Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : With Trump in office, Democrats have a great incentive to return to the constitutional model of a checked presidency; with the possibility that a Democrat will again succeed Trump, as happened in 2020, Republicans have the same incentive.
48% : Some of Trump's return to power can be traced to public disaffection with his successor, some to disaffection with the direction of the Democratic Party, and some to attempts by the U.S. Supreme Court and executive branch lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department and the White House Office of Legal Counsel to elevate the presidency to the status of a de facto monarchy with nonconstitutional grants of presidential immunity and policies holding sitting presidents safe from criminal prosecution.
38% : When Trump or his supporters and appointees, many of whom seem singularly unqualified for the jobs they'll be assigned, actually do things that are foolhardy, morally repugnant, or dangerous to our democratic future, we should speak out and act up.
30% : The question is, what should those who did not and do not support Trump do now?
26% : What should those who have long opposed Trump do now?It's been 210 years since the United States Capitol was attacked by troops of a foreign army.
19% : Failure to move expeditiously to hold President Trump accountable for the attempt to block the transfer of power after his defeat in 2020 made Trump's return possible.

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