Eugene Robinson: The worst is yet to come

[babylonsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-worst-is-yet-to-come/2017/07/27/9c2bef6a-72ff-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.270718aae708

The worst is yet to come
By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer
July 27 at 8:04 PM


The Court of Mad King Donald is not a presidency. It is an affliction, one that saps the life out of our democratic institutions, and it must be fiercely resisted if the nation as we know it is to survive.

I wish that were hyperbole. The problem is not just that President Trump is selfish, insecure, egotistical, ignorant and unserious. It is that he neither fully grasps nor minimally respects the concept of honor, without which our governing system falls apart. He believes “honorable” means “obsequious in the service of Trump.” He believes everyone else’s motives are as base as his.

The Trump administration is, indeed, like the court of some accidental monarch who is tragically unsuited for the duties of his throne. However long it persists, we must never allow ourselves to think of the Trump White House as anything but aberrant. We must fight for the norms of American governance lest we forget them in their absence.

It gets worse and worse. The past week has marked a succession of new lows.

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Do not become numb to the mad king’s outrages. The worst is yet to come.

[VOX]

1. I have no doubt. None whatsoever.

Our democracy is being dangerously tested. With each passing day, I'm more convinced that this country has been taken over by organized crime. I say that seriously.

[ADX]

5. No...

...it's been taken over by disorganized crime.

These are idiots we're talking about here, not criminal masterminds.

[Perseus]

18. Do not make the mistake

Of underestimating them, they are not as stupid as they want you to believe, what they are is pure evil. That is the same mistake they have made in many countries in the past, currently Venezuela, they underestimated Chavez and see where they are now.

[relayerbob]

20. Good points

[fallout87]

21. All of the chaos in the WH

Is completely planned. Let's not make the mistake of thinking these are dumb people. They know what they are doing, and they are doing it with purpose. Two days after the rollout of the new democratic agenda/platform, the entire nation is back talking about Transgender rights in the military because of President Douche.

[maddiemom]

26. Distract-----and Dominate the news.

[JawJaw]

37. Objective: Anything...ANYTHING but #Russiagate n/t

[regnaD kciN]

12. Taken over by organized crime...just like Putin's Russia.

[PatrickforO]

23. Yes. Organized crime in the form of radical libertarians like Charles Koch, who

want to get rid of democracy so they can have a system of unrestrained capitalism.

And that is as criminal as you can get.

If the worst happens, those of us who survive and who remember what this nation was, and what it could have been will eventually climb out from the ashes. At that point, we will place billionaire capitalists - those who made us wage slaves, those who siphoned off our tax dollars to corporate profits, those who squandered our natural resources and polluted our earth beyond hope of recovery, those who endangered our very species - under arrest. We will have a perp-walk into a large courtroom, such as they had at Nuremberg, and try them for crimes against all life. When the trials are done, they can either hang, or be put in cages for life.

[pandr32]

39. Definately, but actual mobsters, too

The plans of the Kochs' and many other oligarchs and libertarians are well organized and planned in detail right down to rural towns and City Halls with their funding of candidates who will secure their agenda. Their think tanks, foundations, lobbyists and pacs have enormous influence and reach--but Nationalists and white supremacists, along with the Christian-right, have joined forces with them. Basically we have just described the Republican Party.
Add to that real Russian and American Mafia en force.

[rzemanfl]

2. K&R n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Another powerful piece. Not numb here, but--

nauseous tonight.
K & R

[dalton99a]

4. No one should be allowed to normalize this administration

[Boomerproud]

6. We need Eugene Robinson (and like-minded people) to stay strong.

I'm trying to have hope that this country can turn around and do the right thing. I refuse to look away while Rome is burning and it's bruising my soul.

[world wide wally]

7. I wonder, in fact, if Trump is the force that will destroy America

There should e enough evidence now to not only impeach him, but to lock hiss ass up and yet nobody will pull the trigger.

[Perseus]

19. Exactly

I think about that every day, what are they waiting for?

[defacto7]

27. Courage never lasts more than a generation, maybe two.

Once courage is lost, complacency takes hold and bondage returns. There are too many who are complicit in the crime to pull any trigger and no one in a position of power with the courage to make a move. It's a circle as old as civilization.

[7962]

38. No. the country is stronger than Trump; and he will be out in '20,

if not sooner.
Look at the ham handed healthcare attempt. Even with him in office, the GOP still cant get out of their own way. No wall being built either. his two biggest promises unkept
2018 is just around the corner, and with it, I believe, will come a further weakening of any "power" trump has.

[SergeStorms]

40. Many Americas' disinterest......

in politics is the main rea.......

Oh, wait! Duck Dynasty is on!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Eugene Robinson is seldim wrong......

This blistering commentary paiints a dreary picture of the end of our Republic. Donnie believes he is King.

Time for revolution? There will be blood.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I picture Putin's evil smirk and beady, little eyes rejoicing

over what a lucrative investment he made.

[bdamomma]

15. oh yes

he (Putin) is very happy to get the USA out of the way.

[bluestarone]

24. man i do agree 100% but

somehow i feel Putin would like nothing better that riots and blood on the streets of this great country! I feel there is a need to do SOMETHING but we gotta be VERY SMART as to how we handle this!! We gotta do it THE AMERICAN WAY notthe russian way How i'm not sure BUT it's gotta be right

[BigmanPigman]

28. You make a point I am hearing and reading about a lot more recently

and that is we all feel so angry and frustrated that we can't wait for 2018, 2020, or whenever because those two elections are no guarantee of a sane outcome. Yet, no one predicted the fake prez to do so much harm in so many different areas and so quickly and consistently. Indivisible and resisting through other groups/organizations in various ways has helped slow down the repeal of the ACA which is great but it didn't stop it completely. He still went ahead with denying climate change, plans to build a wall that we will pay for, destroyed the lives of immigrants, throw our election process into a tailspin, alienated our allies, and all the while allowing Russia to continue without even a slap on the hand.

Everyone agrees we must take SERIOUS action and do it ASAP but on one knows how to do it, what to do, and who will lead it.

[pansypoo53219]

10. FAKE PRESIDENT!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. And his press guy said the word "Fucking"

Haven't all the anti-sex word police censorship jesus people melted by now?

[NastyRiffraff]

25. He said worse than that

To wit:

In the same telephone call, Mr. Scaramucci disparaged Mr. Bannon. “I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said. “I’m not trying to build my own brand” on the president’s coattails.

And:

“What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,”

So far, not a peep from the so-called president, who is probably enjoying this.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. The mental image of Steve Bannon attempting auto-fellatio

[defacto7]

29. Don't bother them with trifling hypocrisy,

they're busy praying.

[Plucketeer]

13. And it's NOT GOING TO STOP

Until our <LOL> "representatives" figure out how to depose el Stupido without upsetting those who stuff their coffers.

[defacto7]

30. Interesting how the word coffer resembles coffin

[Plucketeer]

33. Indeed!

And if you're a cougher, you might be headed for a coffin!

[bdamomma]

14. They need to bodily

remove this sick con artist, I hate what he has done to our country and to us.

[Marthe48]

16. Well you know what?

It was beyond worse when putin edged trump in Nov. 7 and we were told to accept the results of an election that had gone off its wheels. We were asked to accept an illegally nominated and confirmed Supreme Court justice. We have been asked to accept incompetents in cabinet positions, we've been asked to accept russian connivers as agency heads, we've been asked to accept senators and congressmen breaking laws, we've been asked to accept illegal firings of judges, and the FBI director, we've been asked to accept limited press briefings, and attacks on the free press. We've been asked to accept tweets on Twitter instead of formal statements from the White House. We have been asked to accept a man one shoulder shrug away from portraying a cheap gangster in a bad movie. I have not accepted one single alternate news aspect of the incompetent criminals using the toilets in the White House and I am Gd sick and tired of our elected officials accepting, appeasing, rolling over, conceding LAWS time after time as trump and putin destroy our country and our government. Get trump the hell out of the White House, roll his damage back by getting his staff and cabinet the hell out of Washington D.C. and make the republicans abide by the laws that guide our country. Enough is enough.

[kimbutgar]

17. He is dismantling our government and its institutions - the wet dream of the kochs and libertarians

They got the village idiot to do their bidding.

[uponit7771]

22. lol ... "Mad King" is from Game Of Thrones

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. You don't think there's been a Mad King in real life?

Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

Plus, you know, George III, Charles the Mad of France ...

[Hekate]

43. I've never watched G of T, but I've been calling DTs the Mad King for 6 months....

Ivanka is the Crown Princess. Jared is the Prince Consort.

All of this is obvious to anyone who has ever studied history.

[UTUSN]

32. Sir Gene has been the creme de la creme for a long, long time, on a daily basis.

[broadcaster90210]

34. Bin Laden's long con has been successful.

nt

[MrPurple]

36. With Russia's help by weaponizing the refugees in Syria

Putin's Syrian bombing campaigns were intended to heighten the mass exodus to Europe to destabilize the NATO governments that had sanctioned him.

[broadcaster90210]

45. Excellent point.

nt

[Honeycombe8]

41. He is so right. Confirms I am right to be scared. nt

[Hekate]

42. If Brian Williams simpers one more time that "this must be the new normal," I'm going to reach...

...thru the tv screen and throttle him. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

[MrPurple]

46. They should rehire Olbermann for the 11:00 show

Or even put him on at midnight. He'd definitely get a following.

[misanthrope]

47. Better yet someone with a far smaller ego

who believes the news exists to inform the citizenry, to preserve democracy and that it isn't "about them" but the stories first and foremost. Neither Williams nor Olbermann fit that description from my perspective.

[MrPurple]

48. I get your point, but it is show biz

I find Olbermann entertaining. He was the highest rated show on MSNBC when he left, so it's not just me. I don't think he is fabricating his point of view (like people on Fox), but I can see where his "performance" is too over the top for some. Williams, for me, is less entertaining. When it gets to 11 PM, they're pretty much rehashing things that were said on the earlier shows, so you might as well have someone bring some performance element to it.

[whathehell]

44. Say it ain't so, Gene..

[Solly Mack]

49. I agree.