You have chosen to keep your rising alarm private
Adam Schiff addresses his Republican colleagues:
The president has just declared a national emergency to subvert the will of Congress and appropriate billions of dollars for a border wall that Congress has explicitly refused to fund. Whether you support the border wall or oppose it, you should be deeply troubled by the president’s intent to obtain it through a plainly unconstitutional abuse of power.
To my Republican colleagues: When the president attacked the independence of the Justice Department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out. When he attacked the press as the enemy of the people, you again were silent. When he targeted the judiciary, labeling judges and decisions he didn’t like as illegitimate, we heard not a word. And now he comes for Congress, the first branch of government, seeking to strip it of its greatest power, that of the purse.
Many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. You have bemoaned his lack of decency, character and integrity. You have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. But for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private.
Knock it off, he says in nicer words than that.
They would rather serve as a puppet Reichstag than rule a republic.
Seth, I suspect it’s because they assume when Trump goes away, he will leave the Republicans in charge, the Democrats destroyed and demoralized. They want to rule, and they don’t care what sort of government they are ruling, as long as they are absolute rulers.
They need to look at the example of Nixon, who thought he could contain and control the evangelicals, bringing them into the Republicans in his Southern Strategy. Even if Nixon hadn’t fallen, he would have been no more able to control that group than the Republicans are to control Trump. It’s all delusional.