Trump Tips The Scales: Time to Check-Out of The White House

Rule of Law vs. Rule of Men

May 10, 2017
Source: Rogue Columnist  
"Let's be clear about James Comey. He was fired by the president who he was investigating for ties to Russia, in other words treason. Comey's FBI must have been getting close, so Donald Trump acted through his Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, who had already recused himself from the Russia probe.
All the rest, about Comey and Hillary's emails (for God's sake), is a distraction or another of Trump's many lies.
At risk is the rule of law and a chilling future. Most immediately, it means Trump can install a crony as FBI Director (Rudy Giuliani?), as he has done in other federal agencies, to wreck from the inside. The independence of the premier federal law enforcement agency would be politicized and compromised. . .

Why? First, congressional Republicans fear Trump's base, which doesn't care what he does as long as he preserves white majoritarianism and stops what it sees as unending lefty cultural victories. This is an incredibly powerful force of identity politics and, as in Hitler's rise, "respectable conservatism" has made common cause with the leader.
The second reason: Trump will serve as a rubber stamp for everything on the nihilistic GOP ideological wish list. Taking health care away from 24 million people, setting loose Wall Street, wrecking the EPA from the inside, and ensuring no action on climate change is only the start. As I have warned for months, things will get worse than almost anyone can imagine.

As a result, checks and balances have broken down. . . Trump has violated norm after norm. His mental health is questioned by professionals. He is running multiple businesses out of the White House, has embedded corrupt family members as his closest aides, and is in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution. But Congress won't stop him. Neither will the courts, soon, as he has begun to pack them with right-wing extremist judges and one (so far) Supreme Court Justice. . . behind him is a party intent on wrecking America.