Saturday, November 10, 2018

We aren’t alarmed enough about Jeff Sessions’s firing

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/8/18073006/jeff-sessions-firing-democracy-erosion?fbclid=IwAR1U8f9SNNeg3NWhySESq0P_ZrNAgECkXzm7sKQRq_HfjReczXuSDEDYFYY
"The slow degradation of institutions, the normalization of an authoritarian approach to politics, makes any warning about a particular development seem out of proportion to the immediate threat. But we need to be honest about the big picture: Donald Trump’s approach to politics, including his public flagellation and eventual firing of Jeff Sessions, really is damaging the foundations of American democracy."