Ominous warning from Seth Abramson: "Our democracy and rule of law is collapsing."

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47. I posted my own quick run-down of the fix we're in on another thread but it fits well here.

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We're living under a lawless, self-dealing, hostile foreign power-serving Chief Executive run amok, with an Executive Branch aiding, abetting, and protecting him, especially Barr at DoJ and Pompeo at State. Career civil service professionals are fired, stifled, denounced, demonized, persecuted, and stripped of their pension if they dare raise a reasoned or principled or ethical objection. The Cabinet, National Security Council, and WH Staff have been purged of any informed and responsible voices and replaced with craven sycophants. Federal law enforcement has been proven ineffectual, neutered, against him. Our intelligence agencies are dismissed, ignored, and their leadership gutted.

The Republican-controlled Senate refused to seat or even consider a moderate, eminently quailified, lawfully nominated justice for SCOTUS because it was by a Democratic president, and in fear of and supplication to Trump it refuses to enforce the Constitution in many other ways as well. The judiciary is newly crowded with rightwing judges, while Trump defies any and all Congressional subpoenas and oversight, determined to push every refusal big and small all the way to SCOTUS. Because there 5 Republicans await, including 2 he installed himself based on their support of near limitless power and complete immunity for the nation's chief executive... when it's a Republican, not a Democratic, president.

The pillars of our democracy are being shoved aside like a Montenegran president, when not captured and co-opted as cudgels for Trump's own use.

We're down to our last few defenses left.

- A free press, intrepidly staying the course even while under heavy continual verbal assault, and literally physically in danger.

- Impeachment by the House, also under around-the-clock verbal assault and threats (and memes) of violence.

- And the 2020 election, heavily stacked as it will be in favor of Republicans by the Electoral College, as intentionally suppressed as millions of Democratic voters will be, and as undermined as the whole thing will be, pushed in the direction of Trump, by enemies foreign and domestic.

American democracy is in one of its most perilous moments. Yes, it's shocking and frightening, to us and to the world, when the United States of America, of all nations, is looking very much at risk of being unable to protect its own democracy.

I've speculated Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau squelched the flagrant corruption of the G-7 being held on a Trump commercial property. Germany, France, and Canada probably just lent us a sympathetic and helpful hand against one new threat, however minor. No wonder that Trump the wannabe autocrat hates us having allies in Western Europe and Canada. They recognize him for what he is, and very much want to see America get through this.