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Jim Jordan Just Fine With Trump Weaponizing DOJ.
House Judiciary Committee Chair, Jim Jordan (R-OH), was asked recently on CNN about Trump naming three people in a Truth Social post, ‘and now two of them have been indicted.’ “You’re not only the Judiciary chair. You also lead a subcommittee on weaponization of federal government. So will you be looking into this?” (via CrooksAndLiars.com).
Jordan danced his way around the question, never offering a straight answer.
Of course, Gym Jordan had long ago surrendered his self-respect, and beginning some time around 2015 ceded his role as an elected member of the U.S. government to Trump.
So, no, he would not be looking into anything reflecting negatively on Trump.
But Jordan is, of course, not alone. Republicans in the House and Senate have gladly handed their ‘power’ to Trump.
It’s not the first time in modern History that elected government members have willing surrendered to a wannabe dictator. That playbook is very familiar.
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History as Reminder
Posted here 2019.03
“In 1930, Germany is a liberal democracy. Just four years later, democracy is dead, Germany’s leader is a dictator and the government is in the hands of the Nazis.”
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In the last parliamentary elections of the Weimar Republic in March 1933, the Nazis polled 44% of the vote – not enough for a majority but enough to put down any future political resistance. Within two weeks Adolph Hitler proposed the Enabling Act, a temporary dissolution of the constitution while he dealt with the ‘problems’ facing the nation. The Reichstag passed the proposal 441 to 84. There would be no more elections nor a constitution to keep Hitler in check. The Reichstag had, in effect, voted away its own power.
Capitalizing on the nation’s instability, the temporary became permanent. Hitler took the opportunity to purge anyone whom he disliked or had crossed him; within a matter of weeks it had become illegal to criticize the government. A new secret police force, the Gestapo, immediately began arresting ‘unreliable’ persons, and Dachau, the first concentration camp, was opened to imprison them. Trade unions were banned, freedom of the press curtailed, and all other political parties declared illegal.
Germany had become a one-party state with Hitler its leader, and soon its dictator.
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