Former President Donald Trump appears in Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler's visor cap in the photo illustration above a plea for sanity from a conservative scholar and a Canadian attorney who fear the convicted felon has already begun a fatal attack on democracy. Norman Jay Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick delivered Tuesday a red-alert warning that Trump's criminal hush money conviction was not cause to celebrate of the Justice system's strength. "The system held only insofar as efforts to bully and terrorize and bribe witnesses who have helped Donald Trump commit crimes with impunity for decades didn’t quite manage to silence all of those witnesses," the pair wrote.
"We worry that every time we say 'the system held' it implies that 'holding' equals 'winning' as opposed to barely scraping by. "There is reason to be alarmed — deeply alarmed." Lithwick and Ornstein's lengthy opinion piece makes a strong case for alarm over Trump's "brutally honest" promises of behavior and policy should he return to the White House in 2025.
"His presidency would feature retribution against his enemies, weaponizing and politicizing the Justice Department to arrest and detain them whether there were valid charges or not," they write. "Most would-be dictators run for office downplaying or sugarcoating their intentions, trying to lure voters with a vanilla appeal," the pair write. "Donald Trump is rather different.
" Lithwick and Ornstei.
