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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 11:19 AM Mar 2017

What will you do? And you? And you?

By all early indications, the Trump presidency will corrode public integrity and the rule of law—and also do untold damage to American global leadership, the Western alliance, and democratic norms around the world. The damage has already begun, and it will not be soon or easily undone. Yet exactly how much damage is allowed to be done is an open question—the most important near-term question in American politics. It is also an intensely personal one, for its answer will be determined by the answer to another question: What will you do? And you? And you?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

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