{"id":29660,"date":"2018-01-12T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29660"},"modified":"2018-01-12T10:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:06:46","slug":"the-same-democrats-who-denounce-trump-as-a-lawless-treasonous-authoritarian-just-voted-to-give-him-vast-warrantless-spying-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29660","title":{"rendered":"The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS<\/u> have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have added to those disloyalty charges a new set of alleged crimes: abusing the powers of the Executive Branch \u2013 including the Justice Department and FBI \u2013 to vindictively punish political opponents while corruptly protecting the serious crimes of his allies, including his own family members and possibly himself.<\/p>\n

The inescapable conclusion from all of this, they have relentlessly insisted, is that Trump is a lawless authoritarian of the type the U.S. has not seen in the Oval Office for decades, if ever: a leader who has no regard for Constitutional values or legal limits and thus poses a grave, unique and existential threat to the institutions of American democracy. Reflecting the severity of these fears, the anti-Trump opposition movement\u00a0that has coalesced within Democratic Party politics has appropriated a\u00a0slogan\u00a0\u2013 expressed in\u00a0the hashtag form of contemporary online activism \u2013 that was historically used by those who unite, at all\u00a0costs, to defeat domestic tyranny: #Resistance.<\/p>\n

One would hope, and expect, that those who genuinely view Trump as a menace of this magnitude and who view themselves as #Resistance fighters would do everything\u00a0within\u00a0their ability to impose as many limits and safeguards as possible on the powers he is able to wield. If \u201cresistance\u201d means anything, at a minimum it\u00a0should entail a refusal to trust a dangerous authoritarian to wield vast power with little checks or oversight.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Mark J. Terrill\/AP The Same Democrats Who Denounce Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers LEADING CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS have spent the last year relentlessly accusing Donald Trump of being controlled by or treasonously loyal to a hostile foreign power. Over the last several months, they have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7844,5437,577,765,5567],"class_list":["post-29660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-donald-trump","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29661,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29660\/revisions\/29661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}