A Trump Second Term is Flirting with Disaster
A Trump Second Term is Flirting with Disaster
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MONA CHAREN: Flirting with Disaster
IN DECEMBER 2022, DONALD TRUMP said something that, in a healthy political culture, would have spelled his doom. Referring to his lie that the 2020 election was stolen, he wrote, “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
All rules, regulations, and articles must be terminated for his sake. That is not the language of populism, that is aspiring despotism. The Constitution itself must be cashiered if it stands in the way of his ego and his power. There it is, in black and white, Trump’s direct assault on the foundation of the republic.
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🚨OVERTIME🚨
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Dick Durbin opens the door… to bringing back blue slips (Politico).
Rocking in the free world… Sec’y of State Blinken put on a show in Ukraine.
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