“Presidents often lose control over their agenda, or the policy process, or pieces of legislation. Sometimes, they even lose control of their party. But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over the one thing every person, and especially those with immense power, should always maintain control over: himself,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mXs9ekBj
On Thursday ”the president called for the arrest and execution of elected American officials for the crime—as he sees it—of fidelity to the Constitution,” Nichols continues. The outbursts “were likely triggered by Trump’s panic over the release of files about his former friend, the dead sex offender Jeffery Epstein.”
“No one should treat this new phase in the president’s aggression against democracy as just another episode in the Trump reality show,” Nichols argues.
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“Presidents often lose control over their agenda, or the policy process, or pieces of legislation. Sometimes, they even lose control of their party. But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over the one thing every person, and especially those with immense power, should always maintain control over: himself,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mXs9ekBj
On Thursday ”the president called for the arrest and execution of elected American officials for the crime—as he sees it—of fidelity to the Constitution,” Nichols continues. The outbursts “were likely triggered by Trump’s panic over the release of files about his former friend, the dead sex offender Jeffery Epstein.”
“No one should treat this new phase in the president’s aggression against democracy as just another episode in the Trump reality show,” Nichols argues.
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