What makes Trumpists - who now dominate Republicans entirely - so dangerous is their determined erosion of legal norms. Inevitably the pattern will result in wholesale flouting of law. It has already in instances. Remove the professional civil service. Then watch law, regulation, customary usage, and all deference to standard practice yi…
What makes Trumpists - who now dominate Republicans entirely - so dangerous is their determined erosion of legal norms. Inevitably the pattern will result in wholesale flouting of law. It has already in instances. Remove the professional civil service. Then watch law, regulation, customary usage, and all deference to standard practice yield to whim. Already high courts wobble. Force, not law, will govern if American voters install a tyrant.
What makes Trumpists - who now dominate Republicans entirely - so dangerous is their determined erosion of legal norms. Inevitably the pattern will result in wholesale flouting of law. It has already in instances. Remove the professional civil service. Then watch law, regulation, customary usage, and all deference to standard practice yield to whim. Already high courts wobble. Force, not law, will govern if American voters install a tyrant.
To say nothing of tRump's stated goal of packing our military and police with his sycophants.