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Aah, yes. Remember when Germany failed to adequately deal with a traitor who attempted a coup, who then came back and took power again? Yeah.
Well, we did put him in jail, at least.
That is true. The US didn't even bother to go that far.
Although that gave him the time to start Mein Kamph.
Little known fact, his first biography centered on his chronic jock itch, but it was not popular: Mein Kamphor
Later he would write about how he didn’t stretch properly and his calf muscles would tighten up in Mein Krampf
Or his time in a little machine shop, doing assembly work, Mein Klamps.
There was also that time he didn't check the expiration date on the milk and wrote, Mein Klumpfs.
We have an actual CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (14A/Sec 3), that expressly prohibits anyone who participated in an Insurrection from holding elected office. Clearly HitlerPig fits that, but nobody in the Democratically- held Biden administration was bold enough to force compliance. If they had, like MANY Americans were calling for, MAGA would be totally out of power right now.
It wasn't that they didn't "force compliance"...they tried. They tried at the Federal level and at the State level...and all cases centered around that approach, failed in the Supreme Court.
The argument was, that since there was no stated mechanism for disqualification in the amendment itself, that only a legal conviction on that charge, could prevent him from running again. And they ran out of time getting that particular case through the courts.
The Supreme Court ruled that the president is above the law during Biden's term. It was entirely in his power to take enforcement action and let the courts sort it out later.
And what would that have done? They still ruled that he could run, so it would have been a complete waste of time.