If you’re not concerned for our country, you’re just not paying attention.
Trump has shown authoritarian tendencies from the very beginning. For over three years, he’s been dismembering the body politic, institution by institution, norm by norm. What has largely spared us from total evisceration were honorable civil servants and appointees.
Trump has torn through almost all of them and replaced them with loyalists. He now has a clear runway. What we have left is an army of pliant flunkies and toadies at the agencies, combined with the always-enabling Mitch McConnell and an increasingly emboldened attorney general, William Barr.
In April and May, he got rid of five inspectors general. He has replaced intelligence community veterans with partisan loyalists.
In April and May, he got rid of five inspectors general. He has replaced intelligence community veterans with partisan loyalists.
Beware of a cornered animal, they will do whatever they think it takes, to survive....
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