Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, September 9, 2019

Can We Make It?

Trump's ability to degrade American governance has largely been stymied by institutional inertia.  However, he's finding ways to finally erode the resistance of institutions to his demagoguery and corruption.  Trump's pathological insistence that Dorian was going to hit Alabama, and then having some flunky at NOAA back him up (only to get further push back from within NOAA) is one example.  The increasing self-dealing surrounding Trump's properties is another.

At this point, we should see the gears of impeachment starting to turn.  Tis the season...

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