I believe strongly that judgement on important matters should be based on evidence, objectivity, and reasoning. Nobody can be free of bias but I try to always keep an open mind to the possibility that I've judged something wrong, and give it a fresh look.
Regarding your follow-up point - I think it's a good one. …
I believe strongly that judgement on important matters should be based on evidence, objectivity, and reasoning. Nobody can be free of bias but I try to always keep an open mind to the possibility that I've judged something wrong, and give it a fresh look.
Regarding your follow-up point - I think it's a good one. Let's take a deeper dive.
I agree that right now today, there is a line (seal team 6 is a good theoretical example). My concern is that -
a) that line is much further out than historically it has been, which is alarming to me given the overall circumstances.
b) From watching him for the last 8 years, I think Trump is a master at staying just below the impeachment threat line while simultaneously working to shift the Overton window, and he's figured out that as the Overton window shifts, the line moves further out.
All of this works out to, in my opinion, that he can do a tremendous amount of damage, which wouldn't have been possible if the impeachment threat line were at historical levels.
This is beyond the scope of the comments we originally exchanged, but playing this out, my prediction is that the courts and ultimately SCOTUS will rule against many of the EOs, and Trump will test the water and try ignoring a court ruling. He'll start with something small, and if the GOP voters don't massively turn on him, he'll get bolder and ignore more significant court orders because he knows the GOP congressmen and senators are simply a weathervane of the voters, they basically don't take principled stands to any significant degree.
This will be the final test. The main protection the constitution has against a President who ignores SCOTUS rulings is impeachment and if congress fails then, the power of the courts to check the President, in addition to congress, will be broken.
Again just a prediction on this last part. The future of course isn't certain.
Thanks for the discussion!
I believe strongly that judgement on important matters should be based on evidence, objectivity, and reasoning. Nobody can be free of bias but I try to always keep an open mind to the possibility that I've judged something wrong, and give it a fresh look.
Regarding your follow-up point - I think it's a good one. Let's take a deeper dive.
I agree that right now today, there is a line (seal team 6 is a good theoretical example). My concern is that -
a) that line is much further out than historically it has been, which is alarming to me given the overall circumstances.
b) From watching him for the last 8 years, I think Trump is a master at staying just below the impeachment threat line while simultaneously working to shift the Overton window, and he's figured out that as the Overton window shifts, the line moves further out.
All of this works out to, in my opinion, that he can do a tremendous amount of damage, which wouldn't have been possible if the impeachment threat line were at historical levels.
This is beyond the scope of the comments we originally exchanged, but playing this out, my prediction is that the courts and ultimately SCOTUS will rule against many of the EOs, and Trump will test the water and try ignoring a court ruling. He'll start with something small, and if the GOP voters don't massively turn on him, he'll get bolder and ignore more significant court orders because he knows the GOP congressmen and senators are simply a weathervane of the voters, they basically don't take principled stands to any significant degree.
This will be the final test. The main protection the constitution has against a President who ignores SCOTUS rulings is impeachment and if congress fails then, the power of the courts to check the President, in addition to congress, will be broken.
Again just a prediction on this last part. The future of course isn't certain.