I think the title has been defined in spades for the past four years........there was a lawmaker that attempted to define “pornography” years ago, “ I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it!”
Rexedgar:
I think you have several constitutional crises running in parallel quite frankly.
a) A sitting President trying to cajole and coerce at least one state's SoS to fabricate election results in a presidential election. A sitting senator accused of doing the same. Both apparently facing no consequences for their allegedly illegal activities.
b) A sitting president, who shows clear evidence of being an authoritarian and enemy of the constitution, by inciting and directing an insurrectionist riot in order to intimidate the whole Congress while that body is trying to certify the votes of the Electoral College in an election which he refuses to concede he lost.
c) A refusal by the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment when the president has clearly acted recklessly, shows signs of desperation, and through just his latest illegal activity, has indirectly caused the deaths of five American citizens by his recklessness.
d) A Democratic House which, when it finally made up its mind to pass articles of impeachment, cherry-picked about the weakest case it could muster with which to have a Senate trial, leading to the strong suspicion among many that this was playing political football rather than really disciplining a very dangerous, rogue president.
e) A Senate Majority Leader who has announced before a Senate trial for impeachment that the evidence to be presented will be irrelevant and that the verdict will be innocent before the trial begins.
f) An authoritarian president who is preparing to abuse the power of pardon proactively to shield himself and/or his close allies from legal liability for his and their alleged criminal deeds before charges can be laid.
g) A Senate Majority Leader who has so far refused to cooperate with a second impeachment process for a president whom that leader has admitted has acted unconscionably and arguably illegally after his first impeachment.
h) Two parties controlling Congress which care more about political positioning then they care about the welfare of the country and adhering to the principles of the constitution.
i) Public Safety and Civil Unrest issues around the first and second amendments of the constitution which are killing people and destabilising the Federal state and will soon threaten 50 state capitals. Partisan and polar realities which are shredding civil society from violent agents on both ends of the political and economic spectrums all reinforced by firearms possession and use.
j) A lethal pandemic crisis in which citizens and governments are using their own interpretations of the constitution to retard or stymie necessary disease control measures.
That's just ten constitutional crises off the top of my head, and there are many more operating at the systemic level throughout America, which I did not mention.
Cheers (?) and be well.
Evilroddy.
