{"id":149096,"date":"2021-01-07T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T12:01:00","slug":"opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n  Opinion: America is in peril and faces a fundamental choice about where it goes next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f6d5c3612b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f6d5c3612b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next\/#Explore_removing_President_Trump_by_using_the_25th_Amendment_but_prosecuting_him_for_sedition_would_only_inflame_the_mob\" >Explore removing President Trump by using the 25th Amendment, but prosecuting him for sedition would only inflame the mob<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next\/#%E2%80%98With_malice_toward_none\" >\u2018With malice toward none\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opinion-america-is-in-peril-and-faces-a-fundamental-choice-about-where-it-goes-next\/#Donald_F_Kettl\" >Donald F. Kettl<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<br \/>\n  Opinion: America is in peril and faces a fundamental choice about where it goes next<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Explore_removing_President_Trump_by_using_the_25th_Amendment_but_prosecuting_him_for_sedition_would_only_inflame_the_mob\"><\/span>\n  Explore removing President Trump by using the 25th Amendment, but prosecuting him for sedition would only inflame the mob<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0000121384\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       Analysts have long believed that the target of Al Qaeda\u2019s fourth plane on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 was the Capitol building, as the very the cornerstone of American democracy. On Jan. 6, the insurrectionists who took over the building accomplished what Al Qaeda could not: not only damaging the building but scarring the very fiber of American democracy. <\/p>\n<p> Where do we go from here? Will we allow the anger and hatred<br \/>\nthat boiled down Pennsylvania to consume us and deepen the divisions that<br \/>\nalready threaten our nation? Or will the horrific images of the Capitol riot give<br \/>\nus the kick we need to begin pulling us back together?<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       The choices are just that stark. We simply will not be able to stay where we were on Jan. 6, and we will need to make a fundamental choice about the road we <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> in the months to come. Will we go down the one marking the United States as a proud nation committed to the ideals of our Constitution with a commitment to pay it forward, as our founders wrote in the preamble of the Constitution, commitment to \u201csecure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity\u201d? Or a country riven by fury, violence, racism and hatred?<\/p>\n<p>We should not for a moment underestimate the peril. As Lesley Goldwasser, an immigrant to the United States from Zimbabwe <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/09\/opinion\/were-near-the-breaking-point.html\" class=\"icon none\">said a couple of years ago<\/a>, \u201cYou Americans kick around your country like it\u2019s a football. But it\u2019s not a football. It\u2019s a Faberg\u00e9 egg. You can break it.\u201d <\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"header\n              \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetMediaVideo\n          header\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetMediaVideo\n          article__inset--header\n  \"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-object-video article__inset__video media-object-video--standard\">\n<div class=\"wsj-media-summary clearfix\">\n<div class=\"strap-container\">\n<h4 class=\"strap\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<\/h4><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-container article__inset__video__player\" id=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/675E4006-86FF-4D52-BE3D-30C6189872D8\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/675E4006-86FF-4D52-BE3D-30C6189872D8\" data-format=\"standard\" data-esplash=\"\" data-msplash=\"\" data-suppressheadline=\"\" data-verticalstill=\"\">\n  <\/div><figcaption class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption\">\n          Pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, forcing lawmakers to evacuate during a joint session of Congress to ratify the electoral votes of the presidential election. WSJ&#8217;s Catherine Lucey reports. Photo: Reuters<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>       The invasion of the Capitol threatens to do just that. <\/p>\n<p>As the rioters stormed into the building, they paid scant attention to lesson taught in the famous portrait of George Washington in the Rotunda. It shows the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> surrendering his sword at the end of the Revolutionary War, at a time he could easily have seized personal power of the country. Instead, he stood back to help nurture the fragile egg of American democracy. <\/p>\n<p>If we do not work down Washington\u2019s road, we will surely be doomed to the path that shreds the li<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>nts of liberty that he and the other founders worked so hard to create. So what can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Some of President Trump\u2019s critics have argued that he be prosecuted for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/01\/06\/pro-trump-mob-prompts-calls-for-impeachment-prosecution-of-president\/\" class=\"icon none\">sedition<\/a>, and some foreign observers have even asked if he ought to be convicted of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1380714\/can-trump-be-charged-with-sedition-meaning-capitol-protest-riots-evg\" class=\"icon none\">treason<\/a>. And there is a good case for sedition\u2014inciting people to rebel against the state \u2014 for it is impossible to read President Trump\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" class=\"icon none\">tweets<\/a> any other way. But either of these steps would surely only inflame the mob that stormed the Capitol and push us further down the wrong and dangerous road. <\/p>\n<p>We surely should take away his megaphone by shutting down his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> account and refusing to provide broadcast airtime, because the damage he has done to the Constitution has stretched and then broken the Constitutional right to free speech. And we need to seriously explore the provisions of the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/interactive-constitution\/amendment\/amendment-xxv\" class=\"icon none\">25th Amendment<\/a>, which provides for the removal of a president who \u201cis unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,\u201d if he continues his seditious provocations.<\/p>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98With_malice_toward_none\"><\/span>\u2018With malice toward none\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>But we need to dig deeper than that. Trump might have incited the riot, but his words found eager rioters. Leaders need to learn that what they might think is harmless political theater to feed the beast in the base can cause lasting damage to American democracy. Could they truly be shocked that after having created and motivated the mob, they could not control it?<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>We can start by reminding ourselves that, whatever our<br \/>\ndifferences, we can look out from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, where<br \/>\nLincoln\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/linc\/learn\/historyculture\/lincoln-second-inaugural.htm\" class=\"icon none\">second<br \/>\ninaugural address<\/a> reminds us of our commitment, after<br \/>\na wrenching civil war, to a nation \u201cwith malice toward none; with charity for<br \/>\nall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to take us a long time to recover our civic footing after the disgraceful assault on the Capitol. But the lesson taught by a small band of Americans aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11, who seized control of the plane and saved the Capitol, show us the guidepost for the road we must go down. Americans have always known that the defense of our democracy is in each of our hands.<\/p>\n<p><em>Donald F. Kettl is the Sid Richardson Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He\u2019s the author of\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691182278\/the-divided-states-of-america\" class=\"icon none\">\u201cThe Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn\u2019t Work<\/a>\u201c.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>  Re-impeach? 25th Amendment? Various ideas floated to get rid of Trump<\/p>\n<p><strong>And:<\/strong>  \u2018This is how democracy dies\u2019: Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol in bid to overturn election <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:<\/strong> Mob attacking the Capitol was unprecedented but hardly surprising<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>      <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author  hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Donald F. Kettl\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Donald_F_Kettl\"><\/span>Donald F. 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