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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe country is vomiting up trump and his whole damned administration.
Eight days is all it took.
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The country is vomiting up trump and his whole damned administration. (Original Post)
rug
Jan 2017
OP
No. Bannon is clearing out the higher echelons of the security departments so that there
Squinch
Jan 2017
#3
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. When I see rural demonstrations I will believe it.
When I see GOP politicians rising up to denounce him I will believe it.
When I see pictures of Trump looking out the window at crowds of protesters (Richard Nixon) I will believe it.
When I see a totally silent Trump I will believe it.
enough
(13,262 posts)2. May your optimism be prophetic. I think we may have a longer fight
on our hands.
Squinch
(51,005 posts)3. No. Bannon is clearing out the higher echelons of the security departments so that there
will not be any structure to oppose him.
rug
(82,333 posts)4. He'll have to clear out the airports first.
And the federal courts.
Squinch
(51,005 posts)5. Rug, I really hope your gut is right and mine is wrong, but I am sick over this, and I see worse
coming.
rug
(82,333 posts)6. Me too. This skirmish is up in the air but we've got the momentum.
Aside from the thousands protesting at the airports, there are lawyers fiiling out habeas corpus petitions right in the terminals with the federal court in Brooklyn hearing petitions tonight.
If he's overreaching this far this soon, misreading the mood of the people, so grossly misunderstanding the law and our commitment, I am optimistic.
We'll see.
rug
(82,333 posts)7. The chunks are flying.