Susan Glasser

Yeah, I mean, I really, again, that is a piece that I highly recommend. Larry Diamond is one of the foremost scholars of democracy around the world, scholar at Stanford University. And in this piece, he makes a distinction that I think is really important because Trump has operated on such a broad front. You know, you can conflate different things, but not all aspects of this crisis are equal.

Yeah, I mean, I really, again, that is a piece that I highly recommend. Larry Diamond is one of the foremost scholars of democracy around the world, scholar at Stanford University. And in this piece, he makes a distinction that I think is really important because Trump has operated on such a broad front. You know, you can conflate different things, but not all aspects of this crisis are equal.

And, you know, while there are, let's put aside for a second, the many extreme far right policies that he and his team are seeking to implement. many of which might be implemented by another Republican president. So, you know, even if you or I disagree with any aspect of it, you know, there are the policy disputes that are extreme but fall within the spectrum of American political discourse.

And, you know, while there are, let's put aside for a second, the many extreme far right policies that he and his team are seeking to implement. many of which might be implemented by another Republican president. So, you know, even if you or I disagree with any aspect of it, you know, there are the policy disputes that are extreme but fall within the spectrum of American political discourse.

And, you know, while there are, let's put aside for a second, the many extreme far right policies that he and his team are seeking to implement. many of which might be implemented by another Republican president. So, you know, even if you or I disagree with any aspect of it, you know, there are the policy disputes that are extreme but fall within the spectrum of American political discourse.

But then there's the frontal attack on the structures of American democracy. And, you know, his point, which again, I feel like it should be said again and again and again, what's Dangerous is not that Donald Trump and Elon Musk don't like foreign aid to take the conversation we were just having about USAID. That's a policy fight in this country.

But then there's the frontal attack on the structures of American democracy. And, you know, his point, which again, I feel like it should be said again and again and again, what's Dangerous is not that Donald Trump and Elon Musk don't like foreign aid to take the conversation we were just having about USAID. That's a policy fight in this country.

But then there's the frontal attack on the structures of American democracy. And, you know, his point, which again, I feel like it should be said again and again and again, what's Dangerous is not that Donald Trump and Elon Musk don't like foreign aid to take the conversation we were just having about USAID. That's a policy fight in this country.

The thing that makes it radical and scary is the unilateral assertion of authority. Congress has appropriated the money, has authorized the creation of this foreign aid agency, has appropriated the billions of dollars to carry out this strategy. If they don't like it, then they have to play by the rules of our system

The thing that makes it radical and scary is the unilateral assertion of authority. Congress has appropriated the money, has authorized the creation of this foreign aid agency, has appropriated the billions of dollars to carry out this strategy. If they don't like it, then they have to play by the rules of our system

The thing that makes it radical and scary is the unilateral assertion of authority. Congress has appropriated the money, has authorized the creation of this foreign aid agency, has appropriated the billions of dollars to carry out this strategy. If they don't like it, then they have to play by the rules of our system

and negotiate with Congress and have a political fight that yields a different result.

and negotiate with Congress and have a political fight that yields a different result.

and negotiate with Congress and have a political fight that yields a different result.

Just do it. Because they don't have the votes to do what they're doing by executive fiat. And the great fear right now that Larry points out and others do as well is that we're hurtling toward a situation where with so many of these actions being challenged in court, that Trump might become really the first president of the post-American Civil War era, literally.

Just do it. Because they don't have the votes to do what they're doing by executive fiat. And the great fear right now that Larry points out and others do as well is that we're hurtling toward a situation where with so many of these actions being challenged in court, that Trump might become really the first president of the post-American Civil War era, literally.

Just do it. Because they don't have the votes to do what they're doing by executive fiat. And the great fear right now that Larry points out and others do as well is that we're hurtling toward a situation where with so many of these actions being challenged in court, that Trump might become really the first president of the post-American Civil War era, literally.

You know, there's this line in that piece that says, no one has found any examples since 1865 of a president refusing to carry out a judicial decree. And That's the fear right now that is animating many of the legal experts and that is animating many of those who study democracy, because that could be the way in which he breaks the back of this thing.

You know, there's this line in that piece that says, no one has found any examples since 1865 of a president refusing to carry out a judicial decree. And That's the fear right now that is animating many of the legal experts and that is animating many of those who study democracy, because that could be the way in which he breaks the back of this thing.

You know, there's this line in that piece that says, no one has found any examples since 1865 of a president refusing to carry out a judicial decree. And That's the fear right now that is animating many of the legal experts and that is animating many of those who study democracy, because that could be the way in which he breaks the back of this thing.