We’ve done this to ourselves. The constitutional crisis we’re staring down wasn’t handed to us on a silver platter — it’s the bastard child of our own incompetence, a monstrous byproduct of decades of cowardly leadership and political theater. We’ve let it fester. We’ve let the cracks grow deeper, all while pretending everything’s fine. But it’s not fine. Not anymore.

The Democrats – the supposed champions of order and justice – have bungled this crisis from the start. They had their chance to put a stop to the madness, to shut down the erosion of constitutional norms, but they were too busy circling the wagons around themselves and their Hollywood donors – more concerned about looking good than doing the work.

The Republicans don’t get a free pass either. This crisis, this sinking ship, is a bipartisan disaster. They’ve turned the Constitution into a ragged flag to be waved around whenever it suits them, all the while ignoring the reality that they’re dismantling the very thing they claim to uphold.

The political class is too weak, too fragmented to confront the truth of it all. The rot is real, and it’s spreading faster than anyone is willing to admit.

This crisis isn’t coming — it’s already here.

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