At least some people are noticing.
The President openly declares he is above the law. This statement alone would have led to calls for impeachment in a previous era. https://t.co/dawuWli1t2
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 4, 2018
Republicans in Congress: This is dictator-like talk and your silence is absolutely deafening. Time to put the interests of the country above party. https://t.co/QRuiixyvCV
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 4, 2018
She’s our Rep by the way, Seattle’s own.
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1003629106917986306
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One response to “Your silence is absolutely deafening”
It’s… Oddly, awfully poetic, really. Almost a literary trope. That being: that when it collapses to tyranny, it so proceeds because of some kind of dulled, stunned apathy. Not with a bang but a whimper/sleepwalking onto the killing floor.
I wish I had more concrete suggestions. Not quite wonkish enough on the US system to know which lever _might_ be worth leaning on, here. Seems absurd, to me, that a centuries old system allegedly with all these protections might need some serious, messy, street-level pushback from the citizenry even to stop so incredibly obvious, so absurdy Snidely Whiplash, so ridiculously, blatantly corrupt a power grab as this.
Fucking hell, the current congressional majority has a lot to answer for. And those who paved the way to this, with decades of cynical culture war noise.