Jan 31, 2017
President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for "refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States," the White House said.
"The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice.”
This is not normal. This is an ideological purge. This is using Nixon as a shining example, with apparent certainty that the executive branch is moving too quickly for the other branches to stop them. I don’t know that we even have a mechanism for it.
Hannah Arendt’s The Origins Of Totalitarianism should not be used as a playbook. But as long as the Trump administration seems to be going by it, I’m getting a reading group together. We might as well know what’s coming.
