I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.
LOL, I have been arguing for years that Trump is really a Cacife, and that Nazi Germany is the wrong model. You have to look to Latin America (also maybe a lil Franco) to really understand where we’re heading).
Ironically, Mexico seems to be making slow, clawing progress. It's weird to see US media point to things like the presidential prosecutions referendum and say "AMLO is doing this to get revenge on his political rivals" instead of "functioning democracies don't have presidents who are above the law."
Yes….the thing that Americans do not understand is how political corruption destroys EVERYTHING. And it’s such a huge pain to dial it back, if you ever can. The Supreme Court just made corruption legal. So we are cooked. Everything is going to fall apart and kill us.
