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After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again (apnews.com)
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For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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[–] 5 points 1 day ago

If the Democrats wanted to set things right, they would expand the size of the court and dilute the votes of the corrupt and partisan, conservative justices. They could also impeach the most blatently corrupt ones, but that would take 2/3 of the senate while changing the size of the court could be done with a simple majority. I think they could also , with a simple majority, change it from a life appointnent to some reasonable term, like 8 or 10 years, but i could be wrong about that. Will they actually have the balls to make things right? Will their donors allow them to fix our very broken supreme court? 🤷🏾

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