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

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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:

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