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What we're seeing with the Trump Administration basically turning its nose up to Congress has its roots in Anton Scalia through the Reagan Administration and fine tuned and honed by Dick Cheney during the G.W. Bush Administration that culminates here and now in the Trump Administration.
Trump is the consummate specimen that the Repugs needed to perfect this theory and bring it into full blown practice. Trump has the right mix of ego; personality flaws; lack of conscious and emotion to pull off being the ultimate unitary executive. He's running this country like he ran his business and he is getting away with it.
The Repugs fostered this theory and have bolstered Trump being able to pull this off by providing him with the cover to allow him to get away with all the crap he's pulled and is continuing pulling.
This was the Repug master plan that ruminated in Repug think tanks and was massaged through the years to bring us to where we are today.
Trump is talking 'coup'. He is right. There is a 'coup' and the final steps were put into place in the Nov 2016 election that gave us Trump and the Repugs their ultimate weapon - the 'unitary executive'.
I really don't know if there is a way to recover from this as the Repugs have taken this from 'theory to practice'.
If you watched the movie 'Vice' you'll understand the devious mind of Cheney in his putting into place some of the final steps to bring us to putting the 'unitary executive theory' into practice in this Trump Administration.
For some background on the movie Vice and the unitary executive theory - check out this link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-spitzer-cheney-vice-unitary-president-20190207-story.html
I'm really afraid of what I've been hearing from the talking heads on the cable news shows as they frustratingly describe how Trump and his minions (like Barr) are systematically dismantling our democracy. When you hear the likes of Malcolm Nance sounding frustrated - it really hits home.
Couple that with the helplessness of the Dems in Congress to do anything to combat what is going on - it really gets scary.
Yesterday Trump really rubbed our noses in it by talking to Putin. Trump is taking a victory lap as he feels he's come through the Mueller Investigation and can now move on to seal the deal in the 2020 election.
He says 'no collusion' - but yesterday he continued colluding with Russia and Putin in full view of all of us. Can you imagine what is going through his mind as he rubs our noses in this?
tanyev
(42,362 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I'm not having any of those, thanks.
librechik
(30,663 posts)including making sure there is still a fight over slavery. That always works.
Brawndo
(535 posts)Does that sound as likely to you as it does to me?