Listening to that exchange with Trump’s lawyer about the crimes a president should be able to commit with total immunity, and he says MURDER and COUPS could be “official acts” and warrant immunity even after leaving office, and I’m getting that stuck in a really bad timeline feeling again.
@Green_Footballs. Clearly the bar to do the right thing -- to protect #democracy, to protect all of us -- has disappeared. Given that seemingly indisputable fact, I would encourage some of the #Supremes to go back to their #Tocqueville and read the part about self-interest rightly understood.
@ZachWeinersmith Sooo agreed! It happens way too much. Including in history books.
It looks like a postwar fad that kept on. These historians were already fed up with it in 1968!
Marshall, Lynn L., and Seymour Drescher. “American Historians and Tocqueville’s Democracy.” Journal of American History 55, no. 3 (1968): 512–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/1891011. #Tocqueville