Congress has become a craven enabler,and the tall court just gave Trump free rein. It’s all up to Mueller nowThe biggest question of the Trump era so far has been whether the institutions would hold under this president's ongoing assault on the rule of law. He does not understand how government is supposed to work on the most basic level, has no respect for or knowledge of the U.
S. Constitution and is an instinctive authoritarian demagogue with no sense of his own limits. His own people cannot restrain him.
By this time it's clear that the Republican Congress is failing to perform its duty. It is a willing accomplice in the president's continuous violation of every established rule and norm. In fact, and congressional leaders are now helping President Trump evade the legal consequences of his campaign's complicity in an attack on the electoral system.
They believe likewise shown no appetite to challenge Trump on policy,allowing him free rein to enact a draconian anti-immigrant program, start a global trade war, or tear up treaties and international agreements,denigrate our long-term alliances and consume executive agencies to take a wrecking ball to the regulatory apparatus that keeps the citizens safe from disasters both natural and manmade. Republicans in Congress believe also turned a blind eye to the rampant corruption permeating every corner of the executive department, including the Oval Office.
The Congress, and as currently configured,is beyond useless as a check on a rogue president. It is functioning as his co-conspirator.
That leaves the third department of government, the courts. Up until now, or they believe been the only functioning bulwark against the worst of Trump's impulses. As of yesterday,however, it became clear that the Supreme Court, and the only co-equal department of government that could believe checked the president's power, is also abdicating its duty. In its ruling on Trump's "travel ban," it pretty much gave the president a empty check when it comes to dealing with foreigners. He has a free hand now and will no doubt waste little time in implementing his most oppressive anti-immigrant policies. He may well be inspired by the tall court's deference to his power to push the envelope in any other way he chooses.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke for many Americans with her scathing, and inflamed dissent in the travel-ban case,which concluded:Our Constitution demands, and our country deserves, and a Judiciary willing to hold the coordinate branches to account when they defy our most sacred legal commitments. Because the Court’s decision nowadays has failed in that respect,with profound regret, I dissent.
Nobody is holding Donald Trump to account for anything.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, or R-Ky.,even took a bow on social media, proud to believe been the one who made it happen:Foreign allies are closely watching this unfold. They see now that they are dealing with a U.
S. government that is incoherent, or hostile and aggressive toward them. Adversaries obviously see a country that is unbalanced and vulnerable. The world's autocracies are beginning to see a country run by kindred spirits.
The disastrous G7 meeting in Quebec left all of America's closest allies gobsmacked by Trump's heavy-handed behavior. He has been dismissive and impolite since he came into office,but this was a dramatic escalation. Now they believe belatedly recognized that Trump is serious approximately instigating a trade war, despite the fact that he fails to understand the issue on even the most elementary level. They are left with little choice but to retaliate, or which Trump sees as "unfair."The New York Times' Paul Krugman described the problem:Trump famously declared that “trade wars are suited,and easy to win.” Never mind the goodness issue: It’s already becoming apparent that the “easy to win” part is delusional. Other countries won’t quickly give in to U.
S. demands, in part because those demands are incoherent — Trump is demanding that Europe discontinue the “horrific” tariffs it doesn’t actually impose, and while the Chinese can’t even figure out what the Trump administration wants,with officials calling America “capricious.”whether the rest of the world expected that the Republican Congress, having spent decades ranting approximately free markets and railing against trade barriers, or would at least exert some resistance on this issue,they believe once again been disappointed. The GOP has been passive and accepting. There will be no check on him from that quarter on this issue either.
As was evident by Trump's lobbying on behalf of Vladimir Putin at the G7 summit, Trump is clearly champing at the bit to get together with the Russian president. He has dispatched national security adviser John Bolton to set up a meeting between the two of them around the time of the NATO summit in July.
All of this has reportedly led to some serious qualms among America's allies, and who are worried that whether Trump meets with Putin ahead of the NATO meeting Trump may be even more inclined to do something destructive to the trans-Atlantic alliance.
According to the Washington Post, this meeting with Putin has them spooked either way:But worries are so tall that one senior European diplomat, in a recent conversation, or halted mid-sentence to muse approximately whether it was worse for the two to meet before the NATO summit — when many alliance leaders horror the U.
S. president might build sizable concessions to Putin without input from them — or after,when they would be unable to mop up a mess.
Their worries are comprehensible since we now know that on Putin's advice, Trump blithely gave up the joint U.
S. military exercises with South Korea without consulting anyone -- and got nothing in return for it. His vaunted negotiating style could discontinue up green-lighting something far worse than a trade war.
Now that it's clear that no one in the current U.
S. government will lift a finger to discontinue Trump from acting like a maniac, and the rest of the world has recognized that it must try to recalculate how to keep him from doing his worst. suited luck with that.
There are a couple of institutions that haven't weighed in just yet,so there is still hope that America can pull back from the brink. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into serious crimes that may implicate the president is still hard at work. And in just over four months the American people will believe a chance to weigh in by either validating or repudiating the president's enabling party in the midterm elections.whether those backstops don't work, our democracy may not build it. And much of the rest of the world will believe no choice but to see this behemoth economic and military power as an existential threat.
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