Thought-provoking interview with Andrew Sullivan...

[kentuck]

http://www.vox.com/conversations/2016/10/3/12990380/andrew-sullivan-internet-technology-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-distraction

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Sean Illing
Part of your thesis is that we have too much democracy, and that the cure, as it were, is handing more influence and power to political elites. Given what you just said about the failure of elites, why the hell would we want to do that?

Andrew Sullivan
What I’m arguing for is constraints on the popular will, which, as you know, was one of the founders’ core concerns about democracy. They feared democracy for precisely these reasons. The United States is a constitutional republic, and it can’t work without constraints on the tyranny of the majority and on the institutions of government.

My fear about Trump is that he would remove all those restraints because he will have the House and the Senate and the Court and the military and the police … There will be no restraint, and that's what people are voting for.

They want a strong man to fix it for them, which is the antithesis of America, a nation founded upon the resistance to a strong man and the dispersal of power and self-government. So in that sense, the election of Trump is sort of the abolition of America in many ways.

...more at link

[MADem]

1. That guy is a moron. He thought Bush was a good POTUS for the longest time, and believed that

Pope John Paul II would come to his senses and welcome him back into the Catholic fold.

If one could make a living being "professionally wrong" he would have been very comfortable for this last decade and then some.