From The New York Times
The Slippery Slope of Complicity
When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)? I think it’s been more than a year. At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism not to see that Trump is every bit as terrible a human being, and every bit as much a menace to the republic, as some of us warned when all the cool kids were busy snarking about Clinton’s emails.
The real news of the past few weeks isn’t that Trump is a wannabe Mussolini who can’t even make the trains run on time. It’s the absence of any meaningful pushback from Congressional Republicans. Indeed, not only are they acquiescing in Trump’s corruption, his incitements to violence, and his abuse of power, up to and including using the power of office to punish critics, they’re increasingly vocal in cheering him on.
Make no mistake: if Republicans hold both houses of Congress this November, Trump will go full authoritarian, abusing institutions like the I.R.S., trying to jail opponents and journalists on, er, trumped-up charges, and more - and he’ll do it with full support from his party.
You have to vote, folks, and it has to be for the Dems. Vote for anyone else and you risk Trump not only doing more horrible stuff, but getting reelected. That can't happen. You have to vote and your family members who aren't Trumpsters have to vote and your 18+ kids, your neighbors, everyone you know. Please take this seriously. And please don't think it doesn't matter or that it doesn't effect you. If 45 remains in office, it will effect you. Trust me, it will!
The full article is here
When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)? I think it’s been more than a year. At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism not to see that Trump is every bit as terrible a human being, and every bit as much a menace to the republic, as some of us warned when all the cool kids were busy snarking about Clinton’s emails.
The real news of the past few weeks isn’t that Trump is a wannabe Mussolini who can’t even make the trains run on time. It’s the absence of any meaningful pushback from Congressional Republicans. Indeed, not only are they acquiescing in Trump’s corruption, his incitements to violence, and his abuse of power, up to and including using the power of office to punish critics, they’re increasingly vocal in cheering him on.
Make no mistake: if Republicans hold both houses of Congress this November, Trump will go full authoritarian, abusing institutions like the I.R.S., trying to jail opponents and journalists on, er, trumped-up charges, and more - and he’ll do it with full support from his party.
You have to vote, folks, and it has to be for the Dems. Vote for anyone else and you risk Trump not only doing more horrible stuff, but getting reelected. That can't happen. You have to vote and your family members who aren't Trumpsters have to vote and your 18+ kids, your neighbors, everyone you know. Please take this seriously. And please don't think it doesn't matter or that it doesn't effect you. If 45 remains in office, it will effect you. Trust me, it will!
The full article is here