"You have critiqued his inflammatory language and expressed concern at the extremist behavior of many of his appointees. As the author of this weekly "Authoritarian Watch" column, however, it strikes me that your verbal opposition is not enough. In this moment of national trauma, the most effective action you could do to curb the excesses of the Trump regime is to cross the aisle."
"So long as your Republican colleagues control the investigative and financial levers of government, Trump will continue to tear apart the country's social fabric and demolish the pillars of governance that make a functioning democracy possible. In your hearts, you surely must realize this. But if you join the Democrats-not because you agree with all, or even most, of their policies, but because you understand the existential threat to democracy that Trump represents-you could change the political landscape of this country"
Seven Republican senators and representatives are urged to join Democrats to block President Trump's authoritarian moves by altering congressional control. Republican control of investigative and financial levers enables Trump to weaken social cohesion and dismantle democratic governance. Crossing the aisle, even without policy alignment, could prevent existential threats to democracy and stop Trump's ambitions, though it risks primary challenges and electoral defeat. The president is portrayed as unbound, increasingly unstable, and displaying megalomaniacal international behavior that fractures alliances and the rules-based order. Domestically, overwhelming federal force is being used to suppress local resistance, marking a severe federal overreach.
Read at The Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]