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Embattled Trump nomination kneecapped again as third DOJ whistleblower comes forward
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To be fair...
It was about 12 years, but that is a relatively short time. It's about the same time we have to deal with Trump from the beginning of his first term to the end of his second, which is also an eternity (assuming that doesn't become a literal eternity). And the First Republic kinda sucked for a ton of reasons, but it was at least technically a Republic.
But also one of those reasons is that the Republic itself was at war with basically the entirety of Europe already, which is why Napoleon was able to rise to power in the first place: he wasn't just a dude that waltzed in and said "make me emperor", he was the hero of the army of Italy and basically was the major (unexpected) reason that France was able to defeat Austria.
Anyway, the point is that we don't have a Napoleon waiting in the wings to just snatch up power if it came to, say, Jacobin actions, but Napoleon took time to emerge, so we'd have at least a few years of guillotines first...