| I mostly agree. Especially with the alarm you are expressing. I don’t like to be one sided, and certainly have heard people on the left falling for the idea that due process isn’t necessary to make important enough changes (in there opinion), I.e. supporting extreme judicial activism, institutional capture by ideologues, etc. But elements of the Republican Party are preparing to wash away formal and legal limits and bipartisan/non-partisan fire walls to unfettered power for their faction, in an organized way, if they get Trump elected. [0] A lot has been learned about the vulnerabilities of our voting and executive branch systems. Those efforts are unlikely to evaporate post-Trump. It is a rather scary time. Scary enough for a recent Republican presidential candidate to express great worry about his own party. That’s a colossal red flag. And I see the far left’s less extreme loss of respect for the constitution as counter productively providing right extremists with soft targets for their own otherwise manufactured “alarm”. [0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/conservatives-aim-... |