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US Congress has lost all sense of danger after two years of Trump. The only legal fight a speech like that should lead to is how quickly a mentally incompetent president can be removed.
Do not believe for an instant that any emergency powers will be used only for a wall. Blocked in court or not, money will be moved, institutions blinded, power grabbed. The damage is mounting.
To coin a phrase, "it's the institutions, stupid". Trump and his GOP enablers are attacking the pillars of the US system: Separation of powers, checks & balances, eliminating conflict of interest.
Democracies rarely collapse suddenly, with tanks rolling through the streets out of a blue sky. It's a slow death of a thousand cuts to rights, norms, the rule of law. We lived through it in Russia, a far more fragile & corrupt state of course.
The groundwork is to turn the people & leaders against institutions of democracy: the free press, political opposition, independent judiciary & law enforcement, the truth. The infallible leader is the substitute for all of it.
Trump's speech today should make it easier to find 20 GOP Senators to join the Dems and end this dangerous lunacy once and for all.
