Happened in 2016, when the R's embraced T**** instead of rejecting him out of hand, and McConnell and his cronies blocked Garland from even getting a hearing in the Senate. This made the extent to which they'd embraced Orwell's statement, "The purpose of power is power," unmistakable. The congresspeople who placed loyalty to their party and their president over loyalty to their country and fidelity to its ideals in the subsequent impeachment trial, and in the process forswore their oath to defend its constitution, make it clear to me that the constitutional defenses to this form of attack are unsuited to the way things are now, and it would do well to examine them.
I had a long career in tech, which teems with mindsets that have all too much in common with the outgoing president. I fully expected his administration to loot the country of those things that were entrusted to its government to be used for the benefit of all, for that is the way of such people in my experience. I did not, however, expect those things to include our system of government itself. Now that we know better, this is the best time to prepare for the next assault. For it will come.
My own watershed moment
I had a long career in tech, which teems with mindsets that have all too much in common with the outgoing president. I fully expected his administration to loot the country of those things that were entrusted to its government to be used for the benefit of all, for that is the way of such people in my experience. I did not, however, expect those things to include our system of government itself. Now that we know better, this is the best time to prepare for the next assault. For it will come.