Aaron Retica

And let me add to that what Stephanie Wolkin in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, wrote.

She wrote that she was deeply concerned about the rule of law with regard to the separation of powers.

that congressional Republicans are incapable of acting independently, and the result is that there are no checks and balances, right?

We're not getting the, what's the famous Madison Line, ambition will counteract ambition, right?

It shouldn't matter that they're all the same party.

The Supreme Court's acting in the same way.

How do we take back our country when the rule of law has been systematically destroyed?

So I'm not going to ask you to tell the future, but I am going to ask you, with so many of the elements that are supposed to support the rule of law,

weakened, how do we support the rule of law?

It's not designed for that at all.

As an army of orcs?

Can I just say that if you're from New York City, the idea that you would be wanting, however much you wanted executive power to expand, that you would be depositing it

in the bank of Donald Trump, just to keep my metaphor going there, is so preposterous.

My mother died right after Obama was inaugurated.

And I always think about telling her, guess what?

Guess who came next?

It would be the most unimaginable thing, right?

I think to a lot of people, but certainly to people who were living through the Trump ascendance here.

And that these constitutional issues are being...

played out through this person in this way, like, while we're living it, it's very hard for us to recognize how completely insane it is, right?