{"id":10419,"date":"2019-06-14T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2019-06-14T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:42:40","slug":"quote-for-the-day-183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>He will do anything, we have to understand, to protect his psychic attachment to his own self-interest. Anything. I\u2019ll repeat what I believe: <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">He will not leave his office<\/span> if he narrowly loses in 2020. He\u2019ll fight \u2014 and <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">rally his supporters to fight with him<\/span>. He\u2019s not Nixon. He\u2019s Erdo\u011fan. When, since becoming president, has Trump conceded anything?<\/p>\n<p>A tyrant\u2019s path to power is not a straight line, it\u2019s dynamic. Each concession is instantly banked, past vices are turned into virtues, and then the ante is upped once again. The threat rises exponentially with time. If we can\u2019t see this in front of our own eyes, and impeach this man now, even if he will not be convicted, we are flirting with the very stability of our political system. It is not impregnable. Why is Putin the only person who seems to grasp this?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/06\/andrew-sullivan-donald-trump-and-the-art-of-the-lie.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fintelligencer+%28Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sullivan is mostly right, but wrong about this: Trump isn&#8217;t leaving office without a godawful fight whether he loses by a large or small margin in 2020; a sycophantic Republican Party, and a cultish, easily-manipulated base, have convinced him his grip on office is unassailable and accountable to only his own whims.<\/p>\n<p>Every day that Congress refuses to do its plain duty, and remove him, the danger of gunfire for control of the White House increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He will do anything, we have to understand, to protect his psychic attachment to his own self-interest. Anything. I\u2019ll repeat what I believe: He will not leave his office if he narrowly loses in 2020. He\u2019ll fight \u2014 and rally &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10425,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}