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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe're on the Brink of an Authoritarian Crisis
Were on the Brink of an Authoritarian CrisisIf Trump fires Robert Mueller or pardons himself, Republicans won't do a thing about itand our democracy will be changed forever.
BY BRIAN BEUTLER July 20, 2017
There were many reasons to be alarmed by the transcript of President Donald Trumps Wednesday interview with The New York Times, but if you drew back the lenses of time and context far enough, it foretold a deeper crisis than the text suggestedone that may be unfolding already.
The scope of that crisis is much clearer now that the Washington Post is reporting that Trump is discussing the possibility of pardoning himself, his family, and his closest aides to short-circuit the sprawling investigation of his campaigns complicity in Russias subversion of the 2016 election. Trumps team is also, according to the Post and another Times story, digging up dirt on the special counsel investigators in an attempt to discredit them.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143984/were-brink-authoritarian-crisis
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We're on the Brink of an Authoritarian Crisis (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jul 2017
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Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)1. Exactly!
Girard442
(6,070 posts)2. If Trump fires Mueller, there's no point in further investigation.
Congress either impeaches him ASAP or kneels and kisses his ring. There really aren't any other choices.
Cosmocat
(14,563 posts)3. 2018 is the last stand
This country needs to WTF up and do a complete, long terms house cleaning of Republicans out of government, or its over ...
Girard442
(6,070 posts)4. What makes you think the Orange Nazi and the Klan Gnome will allow a real election in 2018?
No sure bet, obviously.
But, if somehow we don't punch past all of the daunting obstacles to clean our Rs in 2018, with the stakes so desperately clear, the country will have thrown the towel in fully.
For better or for worse, it is the pushing all the chips on the table and hoping to catch an inside straight moment.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)8. No way in hell is this republican fox freeper info wars Congress
going to impeach Trump.
So we have an impending constitutional crisis on the way IMO.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)7. Can't believe the dearth