"Jan 6 was in fact, a kind of empty gesture, but it showed him prepared to take the republic to the every edge of a cliff, dangle it over there, and then according to whim, whip it back out or not. And that is just an intolerable level of risk for any society to tolerate in a leader."

"The critique you're now making is basically that he's fundamentally unserious and craven in his own self-defense to the point where no rules are worth obeying if he can cheat himself out of his sticky situation." - Fredd Baurer

"The entire constitution of the United States is based upon the rule of law. The rule of law has to be applied, or seem to be applied as much as possible, equally. Trump has openly stated that the president should be above and outside the law. If he is convicted of crimes, some of which are quite serious in respect to his political positon, he doesn't care. He will seek to be re-elected to overturn the rule of law, with respect to himself. And that's what we can see coming. In other words, we will have an election in which [Trump] will say, it's me or the rule of law."

"In 2024, the very fact that Trump is now a symbol of lawlessness, voting for him is essentially a vote to abolish the rule of law in your chief executive, which is in fact, the abolition of the United States. It was the entire point of the founding of the United States. We now have somoene who's claiming that he is the sole executive, that he should be placed with total immunity above the law in the United States and he's asking people to vote for him on that basis. How is that not an assault on the heart of the Republic?"

"Whenever Trump was investigated personally, he responded unconstitutionally. He attempted to obstruct justice. He attempted to get rid of attorney generals. He clearly tried to rig the election by using foreign policy to get Biden in trouble with Ukraine. There are plenty of instances where he seems ultimately unconcerned, the ultimate being January 6th where he sits there and allows the capital of the United Stats be ransacked and have a riot outside of it in order to slow and defer the certification of the election. It didn't end the Republican... because the general idea that Trump had was so cochamamie and concocted by such loonies... his ego could not allow himself to accept that he lost. This was an attempt not to seize power, but to appease his ego."