1/ Trump is in deep trouble — but there may be a disturbing method to his madness -- per bit.ly/32C7DVv -- By Heather Digby Parton @digby56 via @Salon and @RawStory
There’s another dimension to Trump’s accomplishments, however, one I hadn’t thought about before....
There’s another dimension to Trump’s accomplishments, however, one I hadn’t thought about before....
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory 2/ ...-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv -- By @digby56 -- Greg Sargent @ThePlumLineGS of the @washingtonpost wrote about a new study positing that “demagogic populists” like Trump and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 3/ ...[“demagogic populists” like Trump and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil] achieve at least some of their goals not by what we think of as authoritarian overreach but by what they call “executive underreach”:-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv -- By @digby56 -- ...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 4/ ...Law professors David Pozen and Kim Lane Scheppele present “executive underreach” as a species of leadership failure that’s as destructive as executive overreach, -- per bit.ly/32C7DVv -- By @digby56 -- ...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 5/ ...[“executive underreach” ]defining it as a national executive branch’s willfulFailure2address aSignificant public problem that the executive is legally&functionally equipped(though not necessarily legally required) to address.per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 6/ ...But crucially, the paper[by Law professors David Pozen&Kim Lane Scheppele] present “executive underreach”links this phenomenon to fundamentally illiberal and anti-democratic tendencies:[in article bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56] Hostility to science and expertise;]...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 7/ ...[Law professors David Pozen and Kim Lane Scheppele present “executive underreach”]...&the leader’s abiding faith in his ability to confuse the public with disinformation as a substitute for acting in the national interest[in article bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56]...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 8/ ...I don’t think I need to delineate all the ways in which Trump’s response to the greatest crisis of his presidency fits that description.-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 9/ He[Trump] blithely continues as he began, believing he can persuade the public that the pandemic isn’t happening so they will party like it’s 2019 and reward him with a second term. -- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 10/ ...Rather than use the power that’s vested in the presidency for its intended purpose — that is, in an emergency — -- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 11/ ...he[Trump] does virtually nothing, issuing empty threats and confusing messages and essentially making everything worse by failing to act as the system requires of the executive during a crisis.-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 12/ ... The whole thing falls apart when that vital part of the machine just doesn’t work.-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 13/ In other words, no one should take heart in the fact that Trump hasn’t used the crisis as a means to consolidate power, as one might expect from such a fundamentally autocratic personality. -- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--...
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 14/ ...He[Trump] isn’t capable of that, but he’s more than capable of the form of illiberal leadership described above, which is every bit as destructive to democracy.-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--
@digby56 @Salon @RawStory @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost 15/ Meanwhile, as usual, Trump keeps issuing hyperbolic, reality-show teasers about all the big things he plans to announce in the future:-- per bit.ly/32C7DVv By @digby56--
And of course Mexico’s going to pay for all of it.
And of course Mexico’s going to pay for all of it.
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