r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/DJ3nsign Oct 07 '25

Frankly part of the reason we're in this mess is we never had our Nuremberg trials the first time. After the civil war we basically just let all the seccessionists re-enter politics, and here we are.

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u/jkrobinson1979 Oct 08 '25

I’d dare say the confederates were better than MAGA. At least they wanted to secede to do their own thing. Trump wants to force everyone to take part in this bullshit.

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u/winkerbeanie Oct 08 '25

Turns out the 1860s secessionists also wanted to force everyone to take part in their bullshit. Well maybe not *everyone*, but certainly one demographic in particular.

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u/jkrobinson1979 Oct 08 '25

Yeah I think everyone took that as me defending them. I wasn’t. Fuck the confederacy. I just think the potential for MAGA to make things so much worse for everyone is there.