Slate "Don't Wait for Trump for Fire Mueller.."
The time to start fighting back is now, not after the president crosses another red line.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/10/don_t_wait_for_trump_to_fire_mueller_the_time_to_start_fighting_back_is.html
by Yascha Mounk
It all feels depressingly familiar at this point: The investigation into President Trump’s ties to Russia makes big news. Trump responds with an outrageous Twitter rant. He is clearly floating the possibility of taking extreme steps to shut the investigation down. We all sit glued to our screens, fearing that things will take yet another turn for the worse, yet hoping against reason that somebody will somehow put an end to the whole sorry spectacle.
What’s strange about this is that we should, at this point, know what comes next. We have, after all, seen more or less the same pattern play out over and over since Trump took office. The White House intimates that it might destroy a key democratic norm that had once seemed unassailable. Pundits on TV confidently opine that Trump would never do something quite as crazy as this. Political scientists predict that he could never get away with crossing such a bright red line in such a brazen manner.
But, inevitably, Trump does do the crazy thing. As we survey the scene through the rearview mirror, the line that had once been red starts to look orange, then yellow, then green. With frightening speed, something that had seemed unimaginable until a few days ago becomes a normal part of our political reality. We return our gaze to the road ahead. “Look at the red line we’re hurtling toward,” somebody says. “There’s no way that he’s going to cross that, is there?”
If the definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different outcome, nearly all of us are in the midst of a serious bout of madness.
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