Donald Trump has not even reached the midpoint of his first 100 days, however, the constant, cruel and unconstitutional chaos It is ruining at home and abroad argues more strongly the day that the nation is already in a glass time.
The question is if there is something behind the glass to counteract the emergency. Spoiler alert: there is, it is still read, but just because all the usual responders are failing.
Congress, under republican control, that is, Trump's control is betraying the role that the founders elaborated as the first branch of the Government. Will not verify or balance the president who directs the second branch, even when Abuse of the constitutional power of Congress From the bag, dismantle the federal agencies created by the Congress and the components of the fire legislators there without cause. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, often dissident of Republicans, last week desperate To a constituent of the Teleal Chamber who wondered what the most could do to “defend the Constitution in the crisis in which we are.” The effective opposition, he lamented, “requires … more than one or two Republicans.” Indeed.
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Jackie Calmes
Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. She has decades of experience covering the White House and Congress.
The third branch, the federal courts, has taken advantage of the brakes, including Trump's judges, in dozens of cases already presented by Democratic governors, federal employees, media companies and affected groups. However, the slow and deliberative rhythm of the Judiciary is not a rival for the hurry of Diktats For an impeccable and impeccable “king” and shock troops that implement their agenda, led by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.
In case of processable evidence of Trump's crime surface, well, in the words of Emily Litella of the fame of “Saturday Night Live”, “It doesn't matter.” The right -wing supermayitude in the Supreme Court last year governed In the rightly entitled Trump vs. USA decision that the presidents are above the law for alleged crimes committed under the appearance of official acts. Judge Sonia Sotomayor dissent with precision, writing that the surprising ruling was “an expansive vision of presidential immunity that was never recognized by the founders, any acting president, the executive branch or even President Trump's lawyers, so far.”
The Democrats are almost impotent in opposition, stripped of the power levers of Washington, without rudders and without leaders. The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, and the counterpart of the Hakem Jeffries Hakeem, are good players within the players, but the two New Yorkers have few letters and the Schumer of Septuagenario is a miserable and memeable messenger, he witnesses his globally viral pronouncement that the people are “awakened” by the President.
Democrats can promote the works, but they could not avoid the capitulation of the Senate Republicans by confirming Trump's non-apt from Yay-Sayers. The minority will have some influence on the budget and debt measures that must happen, given the deep divisions of the Republicans and the thin majorities of the Senate and the House of Representatives, but that does nothing to address current emergencies.
The slavery of the Congress and the Trump cabinet means that the best scenarios of the recreation of the break: accusation and condemnation of the Senate, or invoke the 25th amendment To eliminate A dishonest president (As former Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, called Trump after his Purge of the military) – They are out of discussion.
The so -called Fourth Rama of the Government, the media, no longer occupies that influential place given the information of this century. The historical guard dog is economically agitated by the free, although unreliable content, and the news is fractured: Trump has spent years discrediting conventional exits based on facts to his sponsors of magician, while Maga Media has been inclined in a state propapaganda organ. The Americans no longer share a reality.
Trump this month forbidden The Global Associated Press of its events and Air Force One for the crime of not fulfilling its inanidal renowing of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. A judge appointed by Trump on Monday warned The lawyers of the administration that the prohibition is “quite clearly discrimination of the point of view”, although he refused to issue a restriction order that restores AP's access while the case develops.
Without flinching, on Tuesday the White House overturned eight decades of practice and decreed That, not the White House correspondent Association, would determine which reporters become in the press group that covers Trump when it is not practical to include all representatives of the accredited media.
New York Times Peter Baker correspondent aware This chilling analogy: “After having served as a Moscow correspondent in the first days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how Kremlin took over its own press group and made sure that only the journalists who meet have given access.” Trump Karoline Leavitt spokesman counteracted With a clown emoji, he then demonstrated Baker's point for Put reporters Of the Pro-Trump, Newsmax and the fire in the white house pool on Wednesday, expelling the Reuters and Huffington Post reporters.
Trump is following the autocrats's play book: drowning independent news and comments sources and elevating the echo cameras. Some media owners will continue: on Wednesday, Maga billionaire Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, announced that his editor of the opinion section had resigned instead of supervising Bezos '' Newly announced vision Leave the “wide -based opinion” to the Internet and focus on the comments that support “free markets and personal freedoms.”
Breaking the glass could also mean an unprecedented intervention of the nation's major statesmen. For a long time I have wished that the four former presidents and other former VIP of the Government, the military and diplomacy join and speak against the Trump anticonstitutional. However, they have remained mostly mute apart from the individual protests, adhering to the norms, as Trump does not do, against criticizing the democratically chosen holder.
That leaves a final class of first to those who respond: American voters. The reaction It has begun, in the municipalities of legislators and more Congress telephone lines. Democrats report unusually high interest between possible candidates for the position in the mid -period elections next year.
Like Barack Obama de Barack now silent saying As a candidate: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
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