Another thing that clouds our sense of what’s possible is the short span of our lives.
The potential for the leader of a country to jail its former leader is always present. In America, we played nice throughout most of the twentieth century and this creates an illusion.
But the progressives are in the process of shattering that illusion and will probably through their radical actions yank us plumb out of what we’re used to. Who knows what’s around the corner.
And 0 broke the rules completely by organizing an opposition group to the new president.
AFAIK, no one has done that in modern history.