Former President Donald Trump's staggering success in the 2024 presidential race is proof that the nation's system of checks and balances are made out of "SpaghettiOs and silly string," an incensed politics professor said on national television Wednesday.
Morgan State University's Dr. Jason Johnson appeared on MSNBC to decry the current state of 14th Amendment challenges to Trump's candidacy, approved in Colorado and Maine, which argue he violated a ban on insurrectionists holding federal office between the November 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021.
"I am sick and tired of people saying, 'Well, we have guardrails!'" Johnson said. "Our guardrails are made of SpaghettiOs and silly string."
Johnson described the riots at the U.S. Capitol as a terrorist attack that he argues should have triggered a severe and immediate response from the federal government.
"This shouldn't be on the hands of individual states," said Johnson. "This should be the number-one priority of our federal government."
According to Johnson, that failure has left states grappling with a threat they are unprepared to handle.
"We're fumbling around with individual states about what font Trump can use when he runs for office again, after he declares he wants to be a dictator," he said. "This is a massive failure."
Johnson worries the U.S. Supreme Court will not offer the U.S. people a fair trial, as three of the nine justices were appointed by the former president.
"A third of that court are people that Trump put in, and then you have other people who we know are absolutely compromised by the same donors that give to Donald Trump," said Johnson. "This is a joke."
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