A new liberal take I am seeing is that, yes, Trump hasn't created an autocracy yet. But building autocracies always takes time! OK, fine. But if true, then false howling about autocracy will have crippled ability to respond to real thing.https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/4/16841070/trumpocracy-or-democracy …
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Checks and balances are working. The idea that we must turn rhetorical dial to 1,000 because at some point they might stop working is ridiculous. Let's turn rhetorical dial to 1,000 when it actually happens.
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Some of the rhetoric has been overheated. But if you wait until it actually happens, it's far too late.
1:43 PM - 4 Jan 2018
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