Even if you don't consider all this the minimum bar for ethnic cleansing, don't you think there's some precarity in our moment? My recent argument with ACIN was one of legality, history, and philosophy, but right now we're all referring to our concrete reality.
Here's the bottom line no matter what scenario we can offer you, and I don't see how you can disagree in abstract:
1. Trump is not bound, in morals or character or even dim causal inference, by normal human restraints as to what he can unleash on the country or world.
2. There is no reliable institutional restraint that can prevent or remediate any decision of the administration if it applies the ultimate overrude of pure action.
And adding to (1), after this year's purges of inner circle the admin beyond Trump is fully stocked only with committed and vicious fascists. The articles, especially Ben Wittes', around New Year's on how American institutions have proved resilient against and restraining of the government's agenda have been made a mockery of by Year 2018. ('Gravity? That precipice sure seems like a safe spot for that boulder!')
Again I don't understand, Seamus. Every Democratic president or presidential candidate since before you were old enough to vote has been a deficit hawk. Whereas the mainstream - the dominant - Republican dogma in the same period has been, with perhaps only the exception of George H.w. Bush (often closer to pre-Goldwater Republicans than to Reagan (i.e. Milton-Friedmanized) Republicans), tax cuts + deficit spending = starve the beast.May have to vote for a Dem in 2020 to leverage Florida harder. I wish they'd run a true fiscal conservative democrat who didn't believe government was the answer to everything.
Do you deny any of this?
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