The Trump presidency could cost the nation more than we realize [View all]
An interesting article in the WAPO. It is very true.
By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer
As the saying goes, you dont miss the water until the well runs dry: This deeply aberrant presidency threatens to cost the nation much more than even some of President Trumps harshest critics may realize.
From 1988 to 1992, I was The Posts correspondent in Buenos Aires, covering all of South America. It was a time when countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Chile emerging from years of authoritarian rule were struggling to reestablish democratic norms, and I learned one important lesson: Its easy to lose the habits and values of democracy, but incredibly hard to get them back.
Perhaps most difficult is to recover lost faith in the rule of law. That is why Trumps very public desire to use the legal system as a weapon against his political opponents is so damaging. Lock her up is more than a call to imprison Hillary Clinton. It is, potentially, a tragic epitaph for the consensus view of our legal system as a disinterested finder of fact and dispenser of justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-presidency-could-cost-the-nation-more-than-we-realize/2018/03/05/0ddb1882-209f-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.ee3d999e3ef5