"Again and again, our major institutions, from the media to the judiciary, have amplified Trump’s presence; again and again, we have failed to name the consequences. Fascism can be defeated, but not when we are on its side." newyorker.com/magazine/dispa…
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It doesn't at all. By declaring him immune from prosecution for anything he does as president, they have effectively removed the only effective way to stop him from breaking literally any law he chooses.
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Case in point: Tariffs. All they did was "block" Trump from using one pretext for his illegal tariff schemes. He immediately began imposing tariffs under another, equally illegal, pretextual basis.
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Bullshit. The Constitution couldn't be clearer: the Executive has no role in administering our elections. Every trial court, regardless of the partisan affiliation of the judge, which looked at the factual basis behind their efforts to do so dismissed the cases.
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To the extent these attempts have survived, it has been due to dubious interpretations of law by lawless, partisan Trump appointees at the appellate and Supreme Court level.
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When your Supreme Court is declaring legal the bases for those anti-democratic efforts legal and legitimate, despite having no basis in the plain language of the Constitution or long-established precedent, that is autocracy.
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There are legal means for doing everything Trump wants to do. The fact he chooses to ignore those means and rely on a hand-picked, corrupted, lawlessly partisan court to ratify his actions instead is the very definition of autocracy.
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I know you morons prefer slogans to political realities, but NOT saving the banks was a big part of what caused the Great Depression. And the reason there were no criminal prosecutions is mainly because it wasn't clear that any laws were broken.
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As it was, Obama did pass a massive re-regulation of the financial sector that corporate titans like Jamie Dimon complain about and are trying to weaken to this day.
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That’s true. You’re never going to get smarter than the miserable dumbfuck status you currently hold.
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Marc Elias has an almost unparalleled record of success challenging Trump’s authoritarian moves. That the most corrupted Supreme Court in American history is re-writing our Constitution in real time doesn’t change that.
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Welfare and criminal justice “reform” were the only conservative policies that marked a real change from the Democrats that preceded Clinton, and those had pretty broad bipartisan support.
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I’d take a Bill Clinton presidency into perpetuity rather than Bush II and Trump. The world would be almost unimaginably better.
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I think the most bizarre, and most discrediting thing about Haberman as a journalist, is this weird stance she takes where any criticism of Trump other than hers is somehow illegitimate.
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No, Maggie, “Democrats aren’t perfect” is simply not a valid defense of the man when the charge is that he is a deranged fascist who will destroy this country and much of the planet if he and his movement are not stopped.
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Come on. He’s a Billionaire! And He’s Being Attacked! Will no one think of the Billionaires?* *(Besides the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Craig’s, WBEZ, WMAQ, WTTW, WLS and WBBM, I mean).
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…” Darcy wrote, in calling out what seems to be a serious conflict of interest. Byers has painted himself as “the only real outlier” when it comes to Weiss. But as Darcy rightly pointed out,…
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…“Byers himself stated in his Monday column that ‘the final measure of the debut’s success will come with the ratings.’ Then, when those ratings did emerge, he moved the goalpost and dismissed them.” mediaite.com/premium/mediait…
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