Paul Krugman Warns Either Trump or the Republic Will Be Gone Within a Year

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Paul Krugman laid waste to Donald Trump this morning in a series of blistering tweets about the White House statement firing Acting Attorney General Sally Yates:

The text of the WH statement on Yates is extraordinary — sounds like the rant of a third-world strongman. Maybe because it is pic.twitter.com/t5TLktdJUc

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2017

It isn’t often you see Paul Krugman and Joe Scarborough in agreement on anything, though Scarborough this morning tried to soften the blow by referring to the “Trump administration” rather than Trump directly.

He followed that up with a four-part message to Republicans explaining to them that the way things are going they need to decide between saying “no” to Trump to avoid being complicit in the “death of democracy” or adjust to the idea that they’ll be going “down with a disgraced president””

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/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2017

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/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2017

What this means is that anyone considering working for or with this White House — Senators, officials, businessmen — shouldn't 3/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2017

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/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 31, 2017

In other words, Donald Trump’s repeated and willful violations of the Constitution are going to see him dictator by consent of the GOP or impeached. Republicans have to choose.

Which will it be? Our Republic and its democratic institutions or the autocratic Trump and dictatorship with his rule by poorly-worded fiat? The fate of the Republic, horrifyingly, lies in the hands of the Republican Party.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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