Charles Blow does a really nice job of explaining the dangerous times we are in and the possibility of it getting worse before it gets better.
I continue to believe that most people are FAR underestimating where Trump will go, and the pundits most certainly underestimate exactly what the Republican party truly is. Look what the Republicans did in Georgia before the election, N.C. during the election, and WI after the election. They will do anything to gain and keep power, and the more they get away with it, the further they push the boundary.
From Mr. Blow:
What if Donald Trump or those closest to him were compromised by the Russians or colluded with them?
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But for the people who support and defend Trump, this has already been absorbed and absolved. They may not like it, but they are willing to overlook it. Indeed, they are so attached to Trump that his fortunes and his fate have become synonymous with theirs. There is a spiritual linkage, a baleful bond, between the man and his minions.
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There is a precedent in the Nixon investigation. When the evidence of wrongdoing was clear and incontrovertible, people began to peel away, tails tucked and full of shame.
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Nixon had no propaganda arm. Trump has one. It’s called Fox News. … So the network has a vested interest in defending Trump until the bitter end, and that narrative-crafting could impede an otherwise natural and normal disaffection with Trump.
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expect Trump to admit nothing, even if faced with proof positive of his own misconduct. There is nothing in the record to convince me otherwise. He will call the truth a lie and vice versa.
I also don’t think that Trump would ever voluntarily leave office as Nixon did, even if he felt impeachment was imminent. I’m not even sure that he would willingly leave if he were impeached and the Senate moved to convict, a scenario that is hard to imagine at this point.
I don’t think any of this gets better, even as the evidence becomes clearer. I don’t believe that Trump’s supporters would reverse course in the same way that Nixon’s did. I don’t believe that the facts Mueller presents will be considered unassailable. I don’t believe Trump will go down without bringing the country down with him.
In short, I don’t believe we are reaching the end of a nightmare, but rather we are entering one. This will not get easier, but harder.
Trump is cornered, and cornered psychopaths are dangerous. The Republicans never dreamed they could have this much power and thanks to Trump, they see the possibility of true permanent power.
We keep thinking the Republicans folded during Watergate and did the right thing. They didn’t! Barely half of the Republicans on the judiciary committee voted for any articles of impeachment, even in the face of having an audio recording of Nixon committing crimes. When will we accept that Republicans really don’t believe in democracy, they only believe in power for their Oligarch masters?
If the evidence is overwhelming that Trump and his crime syndicate family conspired with Putin against the people of America and their democracy, and the Republicans in congress will not support impeachment, where will that send Trump’s psychopathic head? The greatest danger to him and his family would come if he left office and a Democrat replaced him, so what will he and the Republicans do to make sure that can’t happen? I don’t think we can any longer deny that the Republican party is implementing a slow motion, 21st century non-violent (so far) coup against our democracy.
This past election showed that the majority of voting Americans are waking up to the danger we face. Most Americans still have their heads in the sand, and many others aren’t just deplorable, they’re down right fascists. But as we fight back against this Trump/Putin/GOP attack on our democracy, more and more will join us until we win.
RESIST!