A thread on the @williammcraven2 op-ed. He is to be thanked & admired for his principled stand. There is a disturbing under current however. Very often civilian rule fails not because the men in uniform crave power, but because civilians are inept ..
The easiest way to slip into military rule is to have consistently dastardly civilian politicians until the people tire of the parade of charlatans & ask for a man in uniform to step in. We far closer to this in American than we think ..
The biggest danger to democracy in the US at the moment is Congress. The Congress offers either craven silence or shrill anger. Neither is helpful. If it does not check the executive branch it will ultimately become its victim ..
Trump is too unserious & inept to be a dictator, but he can devalue the office he holds to the point where its occupation by a dictator is no longer unthinkable. So we need to think twice before thanking military men for b*&%h slapping civilian leaders
