Slate - "Of Course Trump will Provoke a Constitutional Crisis"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/07/we_re_headed_for_a_constitutional_crisis.html

A Constitutional Crisis Is Inevitable

At this point, why would we expect anything else?

By Yascha Mounk

A good ending, aspiring screenwriters have been taught for generations, should be “surprising yet inevitable.” If everyone sees the ending coming from a mile away, there is no suspense. If the ending seems arbitrary, or runs counter to the grain of the story and the character arc of its protagonists, it undermines the suspension of disbelief. Only when the ending is surprising enough to feel fresh, yet inevitable enough to reveal the protagonists’ deepest nature, do the final scenes leave the viewer satisfied.



For the last year, U.S. politics has felt very much like the plot of a madcap TV show inspired by hysterical realists like Zadie Smith and Don DeLillo. “I’m starting to think that this is the last season of America and the writers are just going nuts,” comedian Jake Flores joked on Twitter in more innocent times, when it still looked as though Donald Trump might still be stopped from winning the Republican nomination.

Since then, America’s plot twists have only become crazier. And yet, they have so far stuck to the maxim repeated over and over in writing workshops: Each unexpected twist and turn has revealed that the nation’s political protagonists are even more depraved than we had thought—and each time it felt as though we should have known this all along.

Does that give us any clue for what hysterical horrors might await us next? All the recent storylines, and every piece of character development, is pointing in the same direction: We are headed toward a constitutional crisis. Why else would Donald Trump violate one of the few constitutional norms he has not yet obliterated by asking naval officers to take a partisan position at a ceremonial event? Why else would he keep repeating that he has the power to pardon anyone he wants—including himself—for any reason at all? And why else would he and his associates be launching one trial balloon after another about firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller?



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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He wants his base in the street fighting. Alt-right narrative is Trump-Russia is a coup by Democrats

He thinks he can push that narrative and get his base to fight violently against impeachment / indictments etc. That includes exhorting members of the military to fight Americans.

I wish some sane folks would step in and end the coup. It's way past time for Republicans (most it seems with their payoff-fueled agenda) stand with President Trump and accomplish things. If they don't, I cannot see how the nation can survive.

What do we have if the party that lost refuses to accept the results of an election? It sure isn't Constitutional government.
5 posted on 2017-07-03, 10:42:36 AM by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)

[Xolodno]

2. And his base will believe every word he says that it was a coup...

Putin himself could walk out on the Red Square for a press conference and fully confess that they got 45 elected... And his base will say that Putin had the best interest in the USA in mind.

It's been implied that I'm a Putin apologist here because of my disagreements on Crimea and our involvement in the Ukraine... And even I hotly rail against the election interference, 45, etc. And yet you have Repubs defending all this.

[CousinIT]

3. They mean to tear down the US gov't & destroy the country - STATED OPENLY

http://billmoyers.com/story/more-deep-history-radical-right/#.WXQ9f9AZXfo.twitter