The choice our nation must make concerning the republican party and their front man trump is coming to a head. Our nation and its power structure must make a choice sooner than later. With all the lawsuits and subpoenas coming down in general on the republican party and specifically on the trumps will force those jurists who are partisan republican party faithfuls to make a choice between preserving our democracy or of allowing our democracy to crumble in favor of a dictatorship. There is no in between here for them to hide. The time is real close for them to make their choice and it will not be easy for them since they would rather force us to accept their will than try to persuade us with positive arguments.
But the idea that they will not only force us but turn our democracy on its head to make it so may be a bridge too far even for them. Because like with all slippery slopes, once you start down there is no going back. If these republican jurists give the hard core republicans and the trumps what they want these very same jurists will find that their institutional leverages will be gone as well as our rights and freedoms under democracy. Their calculus must be that although they desire the outcome trumps want to force on us they don't want to achieve it by relinquishing their own power. There is the catch 22, want but can't have without losing much.
My gut tells me that the jurists who will decide the fate of our nation will not allow trumps to take their prestige from them. There will be a firewall between the trumps and our democracy and although the republican party justices may well want the end that trump is selling they will not allow for the means to achieve it. However, I am no soothsayer or reader of any crystal ball so what I think may be just a lot of nothing. Yet, I do understand the nature of the human and the desire to cling to a lifelong achievement. We will see as to how our democracy fares in the next year and a half but my bet is that it will survive the trumps and the trumps and their allies will come out holding the short end of the stick.
But the idea that they will not only force us but turn our democracy on its head to make it so may be a bridge too far even for them. Because like with all slippery slopes, once you start down there is no going back. If these republican jurists give the hard core republicans and the trumps what they want these very same jurists will find that their institutional leverages will be gone as well as our rights and freedoms under democracy. Their calculus must be that although they desire the outcome trumps want to force on us they don't want to achieve it by relinquishing their own power. There is the catch 22, want but can't have without losing much.
My gut tells me that the jurists who will decide the fate of our nation will not allow trumps to take their prestige from them. There will be a firewall between the trumps and our democracy and although the republican party justices may well want the end that trump is selling they will not allow for the means to achieve it. However, I am no soothsayer or reader of any crystal ball so what I think may be just a lot of nothing. Yet, I do understand the nature of the human and the desire to cling to a lifelong achievement. We will see as to how our democracy fares in the next year and a half but my bet is that it will survive the trumps and the trumps and their allies will come out holding the short end of the stick.
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