When the rich and privileged are held to the same laws as the rest of us, be those laws natural or manmade, they are offended. They feel demeaned, lessened, diminished. You can see examples everywhere from Bernie Madoff to Harvey Weinstein. 2/
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Public office amplifies Trump's sense of martyrdom and he's becoming overtly, obviously, paranoid and publicly unstable as a result. The term “siege mentality” might have been coined just for him. 3/
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Worse, he surrounds himself with fringe nuts like Sebastian Gorka, political extremists like Stephen Miller and Steve Mnuchin, disgraced fanatics like General Flynn, and an endless host of incompetent amateurs from Betsy DeVos to his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and it shows. 4/
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These people, not one of them, has any idea how to run a Republic. These people have no idea how to deal with the world on an equal basis – because they do not see the world as a place of equality. Far from it. They expect to give orders and have them obeyed. No less. 5/
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They expect the universe to bow down, to bend to their desires. Because it always has. No one questions the wealthy. No one criticizes a general. No one holds the privileged to account. Not to their faces. They are accustomed to subservience, not accountability. 6/
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The rules don't apply to these people. Not on social media, not in the courts, not in the military, not in the boardroom, not on Wall Street, not in politics, not in the Media, not anywhere. This isn’t my opinion, this is theirs in their own words. You can do anything. 7/pic.twitter.com/uZowMq8JHi
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They believe themselves entitled to unquestioned power as their birthright because they are special and you are not. They believe themselves superior. Because in their world if everyone were equal, they wouldn't be special. So in that world you can NEVER be their equal. 8/
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This is how aristocracy is born, right here. And if it's not stopped now, here in this moment, then in a few generations they will BE lords and princes and kings, and their children will be literally BORN to power. And we? Well, we, my friends, will be their serfs. 9/
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Impeachment doesn't just threaten Trump. It threatens the very self image of the privileged, who see themselves as the elite, born to power and above criticism or accountability, beyond the law and beyond reproach. If Trump can be removed from power, so can they. 10/10
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Really? Just gonna roll over? Damn.
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