America is in the throes of a buzz cut of its history, performed by T-Rump’s boys.
Noted American legal scholar, Laurence H. Tribe, makes my ‘read ‘of the day with a justifiable whack at the sense of our current scenario. Tribe, known for his studies of US constitutional law, describes our grim (but most-likely correct) flightpath at the Guardian today. A meaningful snip:
The branch of government best able to uncover and safeguard both our noblest traditions and the simple truth in moments such as these – the judiciary – has been hobbled and vilified by Trump and his allies, making wildly irresponsible calls for impeachment that put dangerous targets on the backs of judges who rule in ways they dislike. Even mild-mannered chief justice John Roberts had to cry “foul”. The administration’s cavalier attitude toward courts that fail to do its bidding, exemplified by calls for Boasberg’s removal, seemed to confirm concerns about a looming crisis.
But searching for evidence of a “constitutional crisis” in the rapidly escalating clashes of the executive branch with the judicial branch misses the larger cataclysm taking place across the US. This president, abetted by the supine acquiescence of the Republican Congress and licensed by a US supreme court partly of his own making, is not just temporarily deconstructing the institutions that comprise our democracy. He and his circle are making a bid to reshape the US altogether by systematically erasing and distorting the historical underpinnings of our 235-year-old experiment in self-government under law.
What we are currently living through is nothing less than a reorganized forgetting of the building blocks of our republic and the history of our struggles, distorting what it means to be American. The body politic is being hollowed out by a rapidly metastasizing virus attacking the underpinnings of our entire constitutional system. Make no mistake. This is how dictatorship grows.
Go read the whole piece — sad and extremely serious.
And the Orange Turd-assholes are trying to re-shape history in real time — as of the case I posted about this morning.. People tend to forget, sometimes, but not all the time:
Historical clusterfuck, or not yet here we are once again …
