Trump is an illegitimate President; Trump and the Russians basically stole the Presidency, the executive branch of our government; we only have 3 branches, Executive (which is the President), Legislative (which are the Congress and the Senate) and Judicial (which are the courts), to our government and they took a whole one. The whole Russian situation is basically a bloodless (since no one has a bullet in their head yet) political coup, that’s what this is.
The Electoral College was supposed to stop something like that from happening but that system failed and it was not the first time either. In the 2000 election Bush was put into office by way of the Electoral College against the will of the voters. Although Mr. Bush did not have help from the Russians he was not who the voters wanted none the less. After going against the will of the voters twice in 16 years many want to either abolish the Electoral College system altogether , which would require amending the Constitution and that would be a problem because of the Republicans in office, who keep winning that way, would not want to abolish the Electoral College system. Or at least reform or go around the Electoral College system in a way which would not require amending the Constitution.
But something else was stolen too, a Supreme Court seat. During Mr. Obama’s last year in office U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes at age 79. Mr. Obama did his job and nominated Judge Merrick Garland to that U.S. Supreme Court seat. The Republicans, who were in the majority in the Senate, would not even give Judge Merrick Garland a hearing to find out if they wanted to confirm him to that Supreme Court seat. The Republicans just made up a new “rule”, which is not a real rule, that Mr. Obama could not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court in his last year in office.
The Republicans pulled that one out of their butts because with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia gone the Supreme Court had 4 liberal Justices and 4 conservative Justices so they wanted to get another conservative Justice in that 9th seat to swing court votes their way. The Senate Republicans held that seat open for a year; they stole that seat from Mr. Obama, the Democrats and the American people. When Trump was elected he nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to that Supreme Court seat who is even more conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia was. And they had to go nuclear (change the Senate rules forever) to do it. Now U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sits in that stolen seat.
I and most Democrats agree with the Senate Democrat’s effort to keep Trump’s nominee out of that stolen Supreme Court seat, the only butt that should have gone into that stolen seat was Judge Merrick Garland’s. The Republicans are obstructionist thieves and thugs; plain and simple. But now that the Republicans accomplished their goal and successfully stole that seat and put Justice Neil Gorsuch’s butt in it the question then becomes what are we going to do about it.
