Reconstruction failed because justice took a backseat to unity (and money in 2008), standard procedure in the US ever since.
They call it "national healing", keeping up the system, but the sores keep festering.

Ironically & unfortunately for the super ego of the nation, especially southerners & sympathizers, not punishing the confederacy resulted in 160 years of stunted growth, stunted healing & acceptance of their sin of slavery, a stunted recovery of respect of self & others, stunted education & economy.

My head explodes every time I hear your hopey-changey sermons. This kind of sanctimonious talk was and is like trying to treat cancer with homeopathy. You just don't get it.
Philosophus mansisses si tacuisses.

They weren't good for their time, it only looked that way because of a Wall St. bonfire they kindled. They set up what we are dealing with today, by themselves and their heirs Obama and Biden.

...and showing them Aitalians how to kick ass.

A "coalition of the willing" needs to adopt a new constitution and prosecute thereunder.

So-called "norms", my ass! "Un-American" etc.
The entire legal system is flawed, based as it is on precedence and common law, as opposed to code, each adopted on its own merit as opposed to bundled into a horse trade of 5,000 pages getting whipped through in a few days.
Chuck that!

But... but... but tax reductions for billionaires!

Gosh, these people...
Back to the Middle Ages in a hurry...

Killed a lot more folks already than Bin Laden.

...and what would he do if he wasn't a "former" this or that?

The acting!

Dems would have to completely defund the government for months. Even then, I wouldn't put it past the admin to simply ignore Congress in such a scenario.

Dem governors have a lot more options than Congress, but they don't dare to stick their neck out.

Or after...
Lack of imagination, a Dem party feature for a long time.

That's what effective resistance means. Officials should advise citizens in strong terms to demonstrate peacefully, but carry a big stick. National Guards should be out alongside to enforce the laws on the spot.

It's not out yet.

It is still true: Vis pacem, para bellum.
Europe has to relearn this lesson on the double quick these days. Maybe they squeeze by as the US did with electing FDR instead of the Nazi Lindbergh

Nobody wanted the solutions of 1930; they just happened as folks were complacent.
They thought it was contained in Munich 1938.
Nobody wants bloodshed, but there are times when you have to be mentally prepared for it. The so-called Founding Fathers certainly were. Oh well, a different kind of people