"Barring" a miracle, we're in for a long Constitutional crisis

Mr. Trump's authoritarian impulses have found their champion in Attorney General Barr and his deeply held convictions of the unitary executive theory. In short, this is the belief that the President can do whatever he or she wants by fiat and disregards the Constitutional separation of powers. With his AG providing cover, Mr. Trump feels emboldened to flout the rule of law, disregard the mandates of the Constitution and rule by decree via Twitter and executive order. Congress will act within its rights as an investigative body by asking and subpoenaing tax returns and financial documents from Mr. Trump and testimony by executive branch officials, to which Mr. Trump will simply decline and order his minions not to testify. AG Barr will claim that this is Mr. Trump's right to do so, resulting in lawsuits and appeals tied up in federal court, most likely reaching the Supreme Court where a Trump-friendly bench will strike the death blow to our semi-functioning system of government. Mr. Trump has whined ad nauseam that those who don't agree with these machinations are guilty of precipitating a coup against him. Friends, we are well into the coup, the coup against the vestiges of our democratic system by illiberal actors bent on elite rule and diminishing the power of the people. Mr. Trump will use any push back against this Constitutional degradation as his proof that there are forces aligned against him and his deluded supporters will eat it up, chew on it and regurgitate it across the Trump propaganda network, social media and dark web chat rooms. We are in a Constitutional crisis.

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