This is quite a column from @tomfriedman: Trump, Zuckerberg & Pals Are Breaking America nyti.ms/36eqYv6 - following are a few excerpts...
@tomfriedman But first, this thought from ol' Pogo ... 
@tomfriedman This from @tomfriedman: "If America’s worst enemies had spent years designing a plan to erode our greatest strengths, they could not have done better than what some of our fellow citizens are doing to the country every day for short-term financial or political gain."
@tomfriedman Not that Tom is letting "America's worst enemies" off the hook. One can only imagine their delight—or watch it openly expressed on Russian state TV as monitored by @JuliaDavisNews and written abt @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/author/julia-d…
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast Tom Friedman again: "One can only assume that they take the country’s stability as a given — that they can abuse and stress it all they want and it won’t break. They are wrong. We can break America, and right now we’re on our way there."
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "Not in the Cold War, not during Vietnam, not during Watergate did I ever fear more for my country." - Tom Friedman in the NYT
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "What am I talking about? I’m talking about a president willing to sink to banana republic governing norms, including withholding aid to Ukraine to compel its leadership to investigate his political rival."
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "I’m talking about Republican lawmakers who know the president’s Ukraine machinations are indefensible and impeachable... Republicans now have a clear choice: let the constitutional impeachment process proceed or attack the process... a majority seem to be opting for the latter."
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "In attacking all the diplomats, intel officers and civil servants who have stepped forward... to bear witness against Trump, they [GOP] are attacking the people who uphold the regulations — and provide the independent research and facts — that make our government legitimate"
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "And, finally, there’s the internet barons who for too long ignored the weaponization of social media, which is turning our free press into a house of mirrors, where citizens can no longer cognitively discern fact from fiction and make informed judgments essential for democracy."
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast I particularly appreciated Friedman on Sen. Lindsey Graham, the strange senator from my home state of South Carolina who considers himself a great proponent of rational foreign policy while showing craven subservience to Trump's domestic agendas and outbursts no matter how nuts.
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "Who is Senator Lindsey Graham?" @tomfriedman asks. "He’s the senator who’s always willing to ask American soldiers to make the ultimate sacrifice in places like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq — to protect our precious democracy — and ...
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "... he’s the senator who’s always unwilling to make even the smallest political sacrifice to protect democracy when it’s threatened at home by this president. ...
@tomfriedman @JuliaDavisNews @thedailybeast "Graham was all for impeaching Bill Clinton for lying over sex with an intern and he won’t lift a finger to judge Trump for using taxpayer money to coerce a foreign leader to intervene in our election on Trump’s behalf. Graham — and all the rest of them — will live in infamy."
