Slate "Democracy Has Stood Up to Trump...But its far too early to declare Trumpism dead.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/04/democracy_has_been_remarkably_resilient_in_the_face_of_trump_s_assaults.html

By Yascha Mounk

Donald Trump has only been in office 79 days. And yet he has already dug himself into such a deep hole that a large number of commentators are declaring victory—or ridiculing the idea that there was ever good reason to worry about him in the first place.

Writing in New York, Jonathan Chait argues that Trump’s popularity is likely to fall further still, leaving Republicans to pay a heavy price in the coming years:

Trump mortgaged everything to win the election by making promises that he lacked any remotely practical plan to fulfill. The gains for him and his party will be scant, and the political costs of obtaining them high. … By the time Trump has departed the Oval Office, they will look longingly at a staid, boxed-in Clinton presidency as a road not taken.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, crestfallen at the Republicans’ failure to repeal Obamacare, is consoling itself with attacks on scholars who pointed out the risks of a Trump presidency:

Not too long ago our leading media lights were using Mussolini and Hitler analogies to describe the new American President’s threat to “democratic norms.” … So much for all that. The real story of the Trump Presidency so far is that the normal checks and balances of the American system are working almost to a fault. … His Presidency is young, and perhaps Mr. Trump will still find his bearings and make some progress on his reform agenda. We can’t say the same about the lost credibility of the many worthies who sold American institutions short while predicting fascist doom.
So have people like me, who have long warned that American democracy might be in danger, come down with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome? Is it time for us “worthies” to get over our collective freak-out?

No, we haven’t. And no, it isn’t. It’s true that there’s been some good news over the last months. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking a moment to celebrate our successes—if only because we owe them to the millions of courageous citizens who have been doing their bit to stop one of the scariest moments in American history from turning into its most tragic.

Here’s a list of the positives:

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1. He's not gone yet. Resist

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2. I'm really not sure how we're supposed to be winning?

He and his team of evil henchmen are still in office, the SC has a new far right justice, lots of vital services are getting their budgets destroyed, we're sliding towards war in Syria and possibly even NK, and the media have started talking about this vile, racist, misogynistic man-baby as 'presidential'.

If this is democracy working, then I sure as hell don't want to see what happens when it fails.