How will this end?

[Janit]

pdq wrote:
It looks, honestly, like we’re barreling toward a constitutional crisis, and sooner rather than later.

Trump is ignoring the courts, and will continue to do so as long as the situation will allow him to.

The VP is posting that it’s “illegal” for a court to tell the executive branch what to do (or in other words, have any power over them as they are breaking the law, which they are). Unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed Musk is calling any limitations on his activity a “judicial coup”.

I heard a recent Trump snippet this morning where he said judges should be ruling on cases, not giving orders - apparently he’s never heard of a court order.

Anyway, Trump has always done whatever he wants, until people - generally his people - tell him no.

His people are not going to tell him no. We need to, or we have a dictatorship.

I have no doubt that we are headed for a constitutional crisis. What I am wondering is how that will play out.

What will it take to get Trump and his cronies out, what kind of economic devastation will it take to motivate people to do it, and what kind of country will we have when it's done?

I have several relatives who are federal civil servants or who do research funded by grants from NIH, NSF, etc. They do good work. They feed people. They heal people. They do research designed to feed people better and to heal people better. They go to meetings to tell other people what they have learned so that others can feed people better and to heal people better. Others negotiate government contracts and fight with contractors who try to rip the government off.

My relatives are being hit by a double whammy: the destruction of their life's work and the destruction of their physical lives. Several of them are going to lose their houses. Where are they going to go?

And it won't stop with the intelligentsia. The government cuts are going to affect everyone. It is one case where "trickle-down" WILL work.

I fear that there will be an epidemic of suicides, and that it will cut across the whole economy. The MAGATS may be intending to kill the intelligentsia, but I fear they will end up killing the entire country as well.