"Facially Insane"

[Mister Ed]

22. What's to stop any Republican abuse of power?

What stopped Republican Supreme Court justices from handing the 2000 presidential election to their preferred candidate, so that he could go on to appoint still more radical right-wing justices?

What stopped Republicans from denying President Obama his Supreme Court nomination on the specious grounds that there were only ten months left in his term, and then later rushing through a nominee of Trump's just a few scant weeks before the election, with voting already underway?

What has stopped the right-wing radicals on the Court from overturning settled law that they simply don't like? From overturning Roe v. Wade? From gutting the Voting Rights Act? From essentially legalizing bribery? From granting the president virtual carte blanche to commit crimes while in office?

One could go on and on, but I'm sure the point is clear: there is no abuse of power that the modern Republican party is unwilling to commit, and there is never a need for them to point to Democrats saying, "Well they started it!".