Please don't fall into the trap of blaming this all on Trump and not recognizing how many other people have laid the ground work for this to happen.

The unilateral action, the assumptions about what the US should be doing and what other nations are doing.

It shouldn't have been possible for a president to do this. But it was. Why is that?

Trump is responsible for pressing the button but he didn't build the ugly machine.

Please don't fall into the trap of blaming this all on Trump and not recognizing how many other people have laid the ground work for this to happen.

The unilateral action, the assumptions about what the US should be doing and what other nations are doing.

It shouldn't have been possible for a president to do this. But it was. Why is that?

Trump is responsible for pressing the button but he didn't build the ugly machine.

@futurebird i am very much noticing how many democrats are lining up to support this.

And I'm hearing the whole "consent machine" cranking back to life.

"Oh we think he did it the wrong way, but maybe it'd be OK if he asked congress." NO.

"Now that the US is in a war it would be unpatriotic not to support it, even if you don't agree with how it started." NO.

Just no.

This was illegal. But more important than being illegal it's wrong and a bad idea.

Pull the breaks now. Do nothing more. Maybe in YEARS we might get back what was destroyed.