The most that many Americans began to expect Congress to accomplish in any given session was, possibly, to avoid a shutdown and, at best, to agree on a budget. The government had been reduced to a shambles. Attempting to stage a coup d’état became an ordinary part of every American presidency. Opponents of each of the next three presidents, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald J. Trump, would call them “unconstitutional.” Members of the House of Representatives would call for impeachment proceedings. Collectors of political paraphernalia interested in documenting this turn could have
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