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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Katelew who wrote (142791)11/7/2019 5:26:58 PM
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If Warren wins and Dems take back the Senate, what's to stop MfA from getting going?

Remember when during PPACA they couldn't even get a public option? Most D's are not air-heads. And most D's have health care from work that they like.

Strassel shreds your notion that Trump has shaken the foundations of Democracy... Trump, no matter what his worst impulses may or may not have been, has and will always be reined in by our system of checks and balances.

I think that the greatest damage he has done is twofold. He has disparaged our institutions utterly. Those are part of the mechanism of checks and balances. The other is this unitary president attitude promoted by Barr and Trump. His contempt for Congress singularly exacerbates the checks and balances problem.



The other side, the half of the country that voted for Trump, are also dangerously close to losing all trust in the media, the entrenched bureaucracy in government, and our intelligence agencies.

And what's creating that? The wild conspiracy theories and the gaslighting. If the checks and balances had been respected from the beginning, we'd be fine now.

Not to say that the Resistance hasn't compounded the problem in its breathlessness and high dudgeon, but it didn't cause it.
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