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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hope it happens to Trump:
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
— Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) 2025-11-20T15:33:05.299Z
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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I hope it happens to Trump: (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2025
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LetMyPeopleVote
(179,832 posts)1. Hopefully history will repeat itself
progressoid
(53,179 posts)4. Oh, I forgot about that one.
I think I have that CD somewhere.
paleotn
(22,212 posts)5. At the very least, it rhymes.
erronis
(23,873 posts)3. Too bad Andrew Johnson didn't set the standard and get himself hanged after issuing those words.
Wednesdays
(22,597 posts)7. Although, Johnson was impeached
...and escaped conviction by just one vote in the Senate.
Maybe TSF can earn the honor that Johnson didn't.
Grim Chieftain
(1,734 posts)6. It just doesn't end
Every day Trump sinks further and further into depravity. Will Republicans (if there are any sane, ethical ones left) join Democrats to end this evisceration of our democracy? This cannot go on.