I wonder, when we look back at this crazy time in U.S. history, how we will describe it. As far as I know, this is the only time in our nation’s 240 year history when an administration tried to simply dismantle the checks and balances that make this a functioning democracy.<\/p>\n
Nixon and FDR both tried to push the bounds of executive privilege. But at the end of the day they both did so within a fundamental understanding that ours is a three-part government, where the power of each part is necessary to balance the power of the other two.<\/p>\n
That doesn’t seem to be what is happening here. At least right now this feels like an existential threat to the very structure of our system of government.<\/p>\n
Let us hope it doesn’t turn out that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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