I dunno. I'd imagine tyrants start popular, for all the usual reasons.
Trump's rule probably isn't legal; the problem is, ordinary law enforcement and the courts aren't able to rein in a President who takes bribes, self-deals, conspires with foreign powers, and allows his people to profit directly and indirectly by his rule. That role is supposed to be taken on by Congress, but Congress isn't even pretending to care - not even holding sham investigations, in most cases.
This part - that Congress isn't even going through the motions - is what scares me most. I've seen numerous news stories mentioning, casually, that the GOP Congress doesn't want to harm their party by causing trouble for their President. That shouldn't be casual. That should be, like, "and Congress, whether due to cowardice, corruption, or cronyism, is completely ignoring the huge risks to all aspects of the national interest; never before has partisanship extended to this level, to the clear detriment to the nation and the rule of law."
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Date: 2018-04-03 04:31 am (UTC)Trump's rule probably isn't legal; the problem is, ordinary law enforcement and the courts aren't able to rein in a President who takes bribes, self-deals, conspires with foreign powers, and allows his people to profit directly and indirectly by his rule. That role is supposed to be taken on by Congress, but Congress isn't even pretending to care - not even holding sham investigations, in most cases.
This part - that Congress isn't even going through the motions - is what scares me most. I've seen numerous news stories mentioning, casually, that the GOP Congress doesn't want to harm their party by causing trouble for their President. That shouldn't be casual. That should be, like, "and Congress, whether due to cowardice, corruption, or cronyism, is completely ignoring the huge risks to all aspects of the national interest; never before has partisanship extended to this level, to the clear detriment to the nation and the rule of law."