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I think it's good that the times is printing this, but I also think that it is good that the bureaucracy is resisting Trump. Flynn was a bit of a nut job, so th
by Eridrus 10y ago
I think it's good that the times is printing this, but I also think that it is good that the bureaucracy is resisting Trump. Flynn was a bit of a nut job, so this seems like a good place to resist. While there's a lot of anger, it seems that in general people are resisting things that seem atrociously stupid.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoI can accept that there may be some good in the bureaucracy resisting Trump. But for the long term, I worry that encouraging the bureaucracy now will come back to haunt us after Trump is gone.
- wallace_f 10y ago>But for the long term, I worry that encouraging the bureaucracy now will come back to haunt us after Trump is gone. I also worry about that. Once you put personal convenience above the rule of law and order, you pave the way for everyone to throw justice aside, paving the way to the path to tyranny.
- Eridrus 10y agoI think this assumes that this is a new development, which I don't think it is, people were writing books on the topic when Obama was in power. In some sense Snowden was the same thing, and a big chunk of the public was happy about what he did. The scale of resistance is new, but the fact that the president is so wilfully incompetent is also new. Maybe they will feel emboldened, but it seems more than likely that heads will roll as a result. Congress is already starting a review into the leaks. It might be quite healthy for some heads to roll to show that you can't use leaks to amass power.