CNN - "Trump is taking US down the path to tyranny"

[orangecrush]

"Political scientists are documenting America's descent toward one-man rule. A recent ranking of democracies around the world by the Swedish academic think-tank the V-Dem Institute put the US at the 31st position in 2017, a precipitous fall from 7th place in 2015. According to the report, "There is clear evidence of autocratization [the movement towards one-person rule] on several indicators.

"The lower quality of liberal democracy stems primarily from weakening constraints on the executive."

Similarly, the Democracy Index of The Economist Intelligence Unit now ranks the US only as a "flawed democracy."

Trump supporters argue that Trump is merely using his legal authority to the fullest. Yet the situation is worse than that. Simply by invoking the phrase "national security," Trump can push the Congress and Supreme Court to give him almost any degree of latitude. Trump's tariffs (under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962), the travel ban and his abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal were all made under the incantation of national security.

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Not all is lost. Special Counsel Robert Mueller and lower courts may still stand up to the President, even though the Supreme Court has become a predictable 5-4 backer of almost limitless presidential authority. Trump's assertion of power would also be counteracted if the Democrats win at least one of the chambers of Congress in November."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/23/opinions/trump-is-taking-us-down-the-path-to-tyranny-sachs/index.html

[pbmus]

1. If is not an acceptable word in your last sentence...

[orangecrush]

3. Agree

[ProudLib72]

2. I found this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Wikipedia has us ranked at 21st (flawed democracy).

And this: https://www.businessinsider.com/economist-intelligence-unit-2017-democracy-index-best-countries-2018-1 These are the best democracies in the world — and the US barely makes the list Again, we are number 21. I think I saw this article posted here a few months ago. If that is the case and we have dropped significantly in only five months, then we are in serious trouble!

[orangecrush]

4. We are

in deep shit.

[populistdriven]

5. you are saying it wrong, we all gotta use russian now

"in deep shit" or "в глубоком дерьме" pronounced

"v glubokom der'me"

[orangecrush]

6. ...

[ProfessorPlum]

7. One man rule. And what a man!