However heartening the massive No Kings demonstrations last weekend, the problem is that there is no leadership and no stated programme for opposition to Trump. The United States is in danger, severe danger, and this rudderlessness is fatal. The wish that a handful of Republicans would stand up against Trump in Congress – which is all that it would take; but the staggering degree of cowardice infecting the GoP makes this currently a no-hoper – means that the will of the millions who took to the streets has to aggregate into a voice and a definite agenda for protecting the state and halting its precipitous slide into ugly authoritarian dictatorship.
Trump is out of control; neither reason nor decency, neither a sense of constitutional principle nor care for the American people, matters to him. His aggressive and brutal exercise of power, allowed by an utterly supine Congress and a lickspittle Supreme Court, has given him as much opportunity to do what he wants as any absolute monarch in history.
In the ideal, a constitution should be so ordered that no individual or clique can do what Trump is doing. But the US constitution has failed its people at last, so what its founders hoped it would do – prevent rule by a power-mad greedy unprincipled man – has left the US at Trump's feet. Even George III in the tea-party days did not have as much power as Trump is wielding – know your history, and compare; you will be shocked...
A.C. Grayling, continues
Trump is out of control; neither reason nor decency, neither a sense of constitutional principle nor care for the American people, matters to him. His aggressive and brutal exercise of power, allowed by an utterly supine Congress and a lickspittle Supreme Court, has given him as much opportunity to do what he wants as any absolute monarch in history.
In the ideal, a constitution should be so ordered that no individual or clique can do what Trump is doing. But the US constitution has failed its people at last, so what its founders hoped it would do – prevent rule by a power-mad greedy unprincipled man – has left the US at Trump's feet. Even George III in the tea-party days did not have as much power as Trump is wielding – know your history, and compare; you will be shocked...
A.C. Grayling, continues
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