Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff has spent nearly two decades covering politics,
technology, and national security, and is now recognized as one of the nation’s most prolific and wide-ranging journalists and historians. Mr. Graff recently penned a very incisive column regarding the state of our democracy.
"I think many Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different." "One could say that Trump has blown through the nation’s constitutional and political guardrails,
but a more accurate assessment is that both Congress and the Supreme Court — who have, as I wrote earlier this spring, effectively rolled over and played dead when it comes to their constitutional duty to exert checks and balances — removed those guardrails helpfully in advance." "It has led here, to this moment, where all three branches of the GOP-controlled government have been willing to torch the republic and democracy that generations of elected officials and citizens have tended for 249 years simply to please Donald Trump and avoid running afoul of his temper." https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-tips-into-fascism-f51000e08e03254d
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Sadly so but would those under the influence (I'm talking to you SCOTUS and congress people) extend the same devotion to him?
Many don’t want to face their constituents in town hall meetings.
Right, but that's because they don't want to explain or answer for their reasons for just following along at least from news clips I've seen. The question remains, would they still have the same trepidation were Vance in the Oval Office?