Paul Krugman: Either Trump or the republic, in any meaningful sense, will be gone quite soon

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

Given the rate at which things are coming to a head, "President Trump" -- the sort-of legitimate head of a republic -- won't last long 1/


Either he or the republic, in any meaningful sense, will be gone quite soon. I have a hard time seeing one year, let alone four 2/


What this means is that anyone considering working for or with this White House -- Senators, officials, businessmen -- shouldn't 3/


Either you're going to go down with a disgraced president, or you're going to be complicit in the death of democracy. Just say no 4/

Those four linked tweets followed a tweet about the White House statement on the firing of Sally Yates:

Link to tweet

The text of the WH statement on Yates is extraordinary -- sounds like the rant of a third-world strongman. Maybe because it is

[highplainsdem]

1. kick

[benfranklin1776]

2. Truer words have not been written.

Kick for sanity

[DK504]

3. Wah! Wah!

She didn't blindly follow my great decree. My great UN-constitutional decree, 'cause he thinks he's the King.

When does the Purge begin of all intelligentsia?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

20. He's Putin a great deal of thought into that. nt

[jayschool2013]

4. GOP tone

For God's sake, they make it sound as if we've been living in some godforsaken shit hole, some abject hell, for the past eight years. Oy.

[Hekate]

11. "Let the carnage stop"? That was T's Inauguration speech. He's been telling us we live in a hellhole

...ever since he came down the escalator in the Golder Tower.

[calimary]

13. Welcome to DU, jayschool2013!

"jayschool"? Journalism school perhaps? If so, where'd you study? Retired b'cast journalist here. Back when I was starting, there were almost literally none of 'em. Just a bare handful - University of Missouri, for example. College radio got me started but after I got hired, I learned on the job.

[jayschool2013]

15. Good to be here.

Such a sanctuary.

I earned a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Nebraska and worked as a reporter in South Florida in the 1980s. I've been a journalism educator since 1990 in Colorado and at the University of Kansas. I currently am the director of an investigative and explanatory journalism project at the University of Colorado Boulder.

[yardwork]

5. Kick

[lillypaddle]

6. Dear goddess

Please let Paul Krugman be right!!!!

[Stonepounder]

7. About impeachment, not about the death of the US!! n/t

[lillypaddle]

10. Absolutely

Sorry for not being clear, but thanks for clarifying it for me.

[ananda]

8. Yes.

As of now, Trump-Bannon-Putin is amputating the legislative branch
and decimating the judicial.

Trump wants to rule by fiat without questions or challenges.

As of now, we are a country run as a totalitarian dictatorship.

We can stay this way, or we can literally remove the Trumpeteers
and return as a Republic run by the people.

I don't know where to place my bet right now. I'm so sad.

[IntraPolitico]

9. wow

Not usually a fan of Krugman but damn, I sincerely hope he's right.

[Hekate]

12. Be clear: Krugman offers an either/or scenario in which the other part is "death of the republic"

[PatrynXX]

14. bit of a dtente here

Didn't have a very Democratic year in 2016, and now the Republicans are going to be without a Republic soon. O_O

thus détente

[world wide wally]

16. I'm sorry, but I still don't see the great danger our country is in

[Fantastic Anarchist]

21. Then you haven't been paying attention. nt

[world wide wally]

22. I see far more danger from our own government than from terrorists

[ret5hd]

23. Uhhhh...yeah. That's what Krugman is referring to.

[world wide wally]

24. He was also talking about Trump's over reach and violating the Constitution in

regards to Sally Yates' handling of the refugee detainments and trump's overall treatment of the law (wherein lies the real danger).

[ret5hd]

25. So, on one hand you call it "the real danger", yet on the other hand...

you "don't see it".

Sorry, not following you.

[world wide wally]

26. OK, let me go slowl

I haven't seen the "TERRORIST" threat that justified the action of detaining people at the airports but I do see a threat in Trumps behavior along with his cabinet choices among other factors.
In other words, what was that EO even triggered by and then presented as if there was some kind of an emergency? Things like that are normally triggered by a specific event. There have been no such events lately.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

27. That's what we're saying ...

... we don't see a threat from the terrorists, we see a threat from Trump and his government.

Your posts were not clear.

[roamer65]

17. Liberal democratic government will survive in North America.

It's going to be primarily in Canada, New York, New England and the West Coast of the former United States.

[McCamy Taylor]

18. Saturday night massacre--check.

[coeur_de_lion]

19. Please make it stop

Please impeach him