Some Lemmy users even go so far as say there is equivalent of Reichstag fire event in US. Trump is only in office for one month and I didn’t see the Congress get burned, pinned the blame on an opposing group, and then made Trump demand for absolute power. Is Trump bad? Yes, but let’s not exaggerate. There are still checks and balance working as intended (many courts are still blocking many of Trump’s executive decisions after all). People need to relax and get a cool head first. Because decisions made on emotions will only blunder.

I could be wrong, but aren’t joint chiefs appointed by the president nonetheless?

It is unlikely that the constitution will be amended. Democrats still (and will always) hold roughly 50% of seats in the Congress. So any proposal to amendment will not pass. However, there is a possibility of coup if Trump does not want to step down.

Surely the fact that he’s 19 and a senior advisor in a state department is more damning than his lineage?

Well firstly, it is the media, they love to sensationalise so they came up with this attention grabbing headline.

And that Trump is very obviously friendly with Putin?

At first I thought both simply have the same ideological inclination, and the speculation that Putin has a kompromat on Trump is a meme. Now, I am increasingly becoming convinced on the latter. Not even Mussolini bent this low to Hitler.

It is called “coping”. At the back of their minds, they know they got it wrong but are too proud to admit it. So, they double down instead and engaging in sunk cost fallacy.

South Koreans had direct, lived experience with authoritarianism and thus don’t want to go back to it. The US is yet to experience it in order to learn the lesson. People generally tend to learn only after experience.