"Watch them start to choke like dogs" Trump says, talking about Clapper and Yates

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23. yet, he doesn't seem to have any close friends

...something very deeply troubled in the way he's estranged himself from his wife and son, spending his free time, instead, holding court at his country-club castles with sycophants paying to watch him gavotte like the petty king he imagines himself to be.

This is a hard lesson for many in our country who've shorthanded history to match their own indifference to what it's taken to preserve our democracy. This presidency is a reflection of much of the ignorance we experience and live with in our communities, workplaces, our everyday lives. All of this cavalcade of calamity we're seeing from this unbridled fool held back by something as mere as the comity of individual men who held that office before him.

But let's not lose sight of the agents of this tyranny: his republican hosts in the Capitol. The 'constitutional crisis' we're witnessing is made viral by the refusal of the republican Congress to confront Trump. The agents of his tyranny.