http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trumps-craven-republican-enablers?mbid=social_facebook_aud_dev_kw_paid-donald-trumps-craven-republican-enablers&kwp_0=417517

"Perhaps it was fanciful to expect anything more from the G.O.P.’s leaders. After Trump won in November, they made a political deal with him. As long as he pursues their legislative agenda—gutting Obamacare and other government programs, axing regulations, cutting taxes on the wealthy—they are likely to stick with him under almost any circumstances, even as their pact gets ever more Faustian."

"A President enabled by a spineless and supine Congress that fails to exercise its oversight powers isn’t a weak executive at all: he is a potential despot. Using his authority to hire and fire federal officials, he can rapidly remake the government to his own design, appointing loyalists to key positions, eliminating potential threats, and undermining alternative repositories of power."

If Trump ever actually seizes or attempts to seize power, I will enjoy reading the mental gymnastics used by the Trump loyalist in justifying his takeover.

However my best guess is that the Republican Congress will drop him like a hot potato as soon as they no longer need him. (unless he manages to get Ryan, McConnell and other power players wrapped around his finger by then)

Trump is not the real problem.

http://www.salon.com/2017/06/22/the-face-of-republican-evil-its-not-donald-trump/?google_editors_picks=true

The slippery slope has begun.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-rules-states-cannot-refuse-all-financial-aid-churches-n776701?google_editors_picks=true

https://apnews.com/2350d7be5e24469ab445089bf663cdcb/EPA-chief-met-with-Dow-CEO-before-deciding-on-pesticide-ban?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

"The American Academy of Pediatrics urged Pruitt on Tuesday to take chlorpyrifos off the market. The group representing more than 66,000 pediatricians and pediatric surgeons said it is “deeply alarmed” by Pruitt’s decision to allow the pesticide’s continued use."

https://thinkprogress.org/voter-fraud-letter-97dcfc51eb48

“This lack of openness is all the more concerning, considering… Kobach has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas,” she said in a statement. “The courts have repudiated his methods on multiple occasions but often after the damage has been done to voters. Given Secretary Kobach’s history we find it very difficult to have confidence in the work of this Commission.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/understanding-republican-cruelty.html?smid=fb-share

"As with Obamacare, this story began with a politically convenient lie — the pretense, going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, that social safety net programs just reward lazy people who don’t want to work. And we all know which people in particular were supposed to be on the take.

"Now, this was never true, and in an era of rising inequality and declining traditional industries, some of the biggest beneficiaries of these safety net programs are members of the Trump-supporting white working class. But the modern G.O.P. basically consists of career apparatchiks who live in an intellectual bubble, and those Reagan-era stereotypes still dominate their picture of struggling Americans."

From innuendoprogress.com.  And, would those be the same courts that SCOTUS just slammed 9-0?

Source that the author is a never-Trumper? And if he is, how does that invalidate the articles content? For example, are you denying that he displayed fake-news TIME covers in his buildings?

Specific examples are needed, otherwise you response is just a red herring.

http://www.ourrepubliconline.com/Author/120

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.” (President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918.)    “Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.” (President Theodore Roosevelt, Works, vol. 21, pp. 316,321.)

If this is how Russia runs 'intelligence operations', we can all sleep well, without fear of any Red Menace.

Hope springs eternal.

John Oliver scares you with disaster and then

sells you liberalism. I wonder if he really drinks tap water?