Red Baron disagrees and puts a question mark behind this statement, as long as Stephen Colbert, in his Late Show, may openly call President Trump a moron without repercussions.
We Europeans rub our eyes every day and ask how long the American people will tolerate this man. Where is the public outcry or protest? In Germany, thousands take to the streets when Christian Democrats vote on a law with the help of the right-wing extremist AfD party.
Sure, the AfD has 26% of the vote in polls, and the Left has 11%. People are already invoking a Weimar situation. Back then, in the 1930s, the democratic center in the Reichstag (the German parliament) was crushed between the radical right-wing and left-wing parties. The German people were ultimately given a Reich Chancellor whom most consider to be the greatest criminal of all time.
The New York Times wrote, "The path of a democracy into authoritarianism is like a slippery slope, or a constitutional state erodes piece by piece, and suddenly it is gone. It took the Nazis just four months to complete their Machtergreifung (grabbing complete power).
In a Short, former President Obama warns that the current government's actions are inconsistent with democracy. America is drifting into autocracy, while Obama mentions Hungary and Victor Orban.
In America, the law is king," founding father Thomas Paine once wrote, but
presently, Trump is the law.
When courts try to stop Trump, he often ignores them. He can do this because, with a compliant Republican Party in Congress, the checks and balances are undermined.
He can do this because many have resigned and given in. Is it fear of either Trump personally or his power, and why resist when you can suck up?
Powerful law firms do pro bono work for the Trump administration so that it will remain favorable to them.
When courts try to stop Trump, he often ignores them. He can do this because, with a compliant Republican Party in Congress, the checks and balances are undermined.
He can do this because many have resigned and given in. Is it fear of either Trump personally or his power, and why resist when you can suck up?
Powerful law firms do pro bono work for the Trump administration so that it will remain favorable to them.
Many universities have changed their curricula or admissions procedures so as not to lose research funding.
Corporate America and tech billionaires Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg were among the top invitees when Trump took office on January 20.
They don't want Donald as an adversary and smiled as their new president renamed the Gulf of Mexico, sought to make Canada the 51st state, and seize Greenland, as well as the Panama Canal.
The latest episode of Trump's actions is his transformation of
the traditional White House Rose Garden
into a "freedom slab," as Stephen Colbert called it.
The story didn't end there:
Red Baron shakes his head. Doesn't an American president have more important things to care about?
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