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I wish more people could see this, and understand it. It's a bit shocking to me how little empathy people have. Empathy isn't just about knowing when to give someone a hug- it's also about understanding what makes some people angry (among other things). Removing Trump from the ballot in California would do FAR more harm than anything else.
I agree with (you) and Newsome on this one
While I absolutely see your point, and am even on the fence about it myself, I also see Trump as a huge threat to the country and the world. He's made his intentions pretty well known at this time what he plans to do in his second term, and it's basically dismantle everything. Couple that with the fact that he was probably only a few key people away from creating a constitutional crisis on Jan 6th, and using that as a reason to retain power. If he purges most of the government and puts in people loyal to him rather than the COTUS, it could go very bad for this country.
Additionally, it appears that nothing can convince his cultists that he is a bad person. It's all out in the open: we have him bragging on tape to mishandling classified information (while not all that long ago they were chanting that a political opponent should be locked up for just that), we have him on tape - and other evidence - of pressuring an election official to overturn an election he lost, we have him - in violation of the law - withholding money appropriate by congress and then secretly calling the recipient of that aid and basically pressuring him into opening an investigation into a political rival.
I just don't get how you could possibly convince these people that he is a bad person when we have so much blatant shit, right in front of us, indicating how bad he is and that only makes him more popular. They live in a bubble where penetrating it is impossible, or they are simply fascists who want this guy to be their god-emperor so it actually part of the plan.
The COTUS is designed to protect us from these types of people. . .and if we aren't going to use when it's so clearly appropriate, and just leave it up to chance of the misinformed public, what's the point of it at all?
One thing which keeps sticking with me that was mentioned on another thread that I agree with, is precedence. If blue/liberal states start trying to remove him from their ballots, what's going to stop the red/conservative states from trying to do the same for Biden?
It may just keep escalating to a larger bickering match between the states akin to children fighting over what channel to watch.
I doubt that would happen, but I also never thought I'd see the day that human rights in the U.S. went backward, either