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The Democrats (or whatever other party emerges as actual opposition) need to make part of their "picking up the pieces and rebuilding" platform a declaration making it clear that when the looters are finally kicked out, all of these "sales" of public assets to private parties will be declared fraudulent conveyances and undone - with refunds in then-inflation-devalued dollars, and subject to deductions for any damages to the assets.
tialaramex
If you're "picking up the pieces" you have tabula rasa. So nobody owns anything unless you say so.

I think you'll be lucky if there isn't something closer to France's épuration sauvage - the "wild purge" after liberation but before France's civil government was fully in control again. Later there are trials, the ordinary operation of justice, the accused have lawyers, evidence is produced, some are executed, many go to prison, more walk free, but as German infantry flee and the Allied tanks roll towards Paris local French people just grab that guy everybody knows is a collaborator and they slit his throat, maybe he was really what they thought he was, maybe the leader of the mob just fancied this guy's wife. It's done now.

mindslight OP
There are different levels of destruction/collapse to be picking up the pieces from. I sure hope we aren't leaving the common law property record behind, just for what that would say about how much was destroyed.

Likewise to the point where things have gotten so polarized that people are literally slitting each others throats for their politics. I know Faceboot is a hell of a drug and all, but I'm still hopeful the need for justice can be contained to the elites. Like we're all better off if that one guy down the street that has kept his de facto Death to America sign up long after the inauguration can just die of old age.

7e
Courts would never uphold the notion of a fraudulent conveyance. Your thinking is delusionsal.
plantwallshoe
If the next president decides to do it then it won’t matter. The executive has been granted near absolute authority by the courts and they have shown they are incapable of enforcing any rulings against the executive branch.
mindslight OP
Those "courts" are currently rubber stamping many of the out of control "unitary" executive actions out of political expedience. It's not far fetched to think that the trend will continue for reform. In fact I think a lot of the people supporting the current administration support the autocracy because they think it is about reform (because they seemingly have no ability to analyze the administrations' actual actions beyond team sport cheerleading, but I digress)

Escalating the dynamic is bad, because we ultimately need to pull out of the corruption. But continuing the dynamic of letting the looters keep their ill gotten gains having them declared as untouchable "private property" is worse.

Also even if this does not end up happening, broadcasting the intent far and wide puts a chilling effect on the current looting. The point is there needs to be possible consequences on the table to balance the official policy of having a fire sale.

Glyptodon
If Dems get a big enough majority they can pass a constitutional amendment to undo and punish the Trump administration and their cronies. Even without that, if they can come up with a way to criminally charge them with crimes they can probably get it back with civil asset forfeiture.

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