This is the thinking of a dictator. And let's not use fancy language like authoritarian or autocrat or even despot to describe it.Tyranny is tyranny. During Trump's first term his greatest crime was betraying the country. He was a traitor. Now, he is compounding the betrayal by attacking democracy.
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
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Instead let’s call him something like Porky, or Bozo, or Giant Fuckup. (I more than half serious.)
#dictatorship
#autocracy
We’re on the leading edge of the new Republican phase:
Rule by the “Pinochet Did Nothing wrong!” Bros.
“I am the law”
“The DOJ are my lawyers”
“Court orders are irrelevant BS.”
“A judge who disagrees must be impeached.”
"Article 2 says I can do whatever I want."
“I decide who belongs here, due process be damned.”
“I decide who is a Jew, history be damned.”
Soon: “I decide who will be thrown from helicopters.”
GOP, some out of fear, some out of chronic fecklessness, some with glee, STILL say "Let Trump be Trump!"
So he is.
In all his vile psychopathy.