Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Will 2020 Election Lead to Violence in the Streets?" video.

A perverse part of me hopes Trump loses the election, tries to stay in office regardless, and foments violence. It'll be seen as a coup attempt, both here and abroad, and require violence to quell. It'll end up causing the forcible removal of this president and leave a permanent mark on his legacy that will never be able to be defended by conservatives. It'll likely cause extreme long-term damage to their movement resulting in an emboldening of liberalism and return us at least closer to the path this nation was meant to be walking.
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@stevemcdonald6001 Well, as I said, it's a perverse part of me. My reasonable and rational side knows that any real violence here will not only split our already polarized nation further, it'll fracture it, possibly to a point where we can't repair it. As for Watergate, that ended with the president resigning in disgrace and the country mostly rallying on the side of impeachment and removal. We should be so lucky this time with this president and our current electorate.
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@stevemcdonald6001 Well, the major problem we had with the whole Watergate thing is, though he resigned in disgrace, he never really suffered any real consequences. He should have been removed, he should have been charged with at least one crime, and the people of this nation would have realized that responsibility is what rules this nation. What happened? He resigned, his second vice president, an appointed one that the people never chose, took over, and he pardoned Nixon. His idea was that a pardon has guilt implicit within it, but what it did was erode political responsibility to a horrible degree and open the door for Regan, then the Bush's, and to a lesser degree Clinton. We desperately need responsibility reinforced and pushed forward. It was meant to be the bedrock foundation of our nation's political establishment, but it's been eroded and replaced with greed and self-service. Trump is a symptom of just how rotten our political system has become, and how that has so polarized our nation. I like to think (though I cannot prove) that 50 or 60 years ago, a man like Trump couldn't get within a thousand miles of winning the Whitehouse. But, when your opponent was very corrupt too, this was almost inevitable. Unfortunately, I think it'll just get worse as time goes on.
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