| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Democrats and Republicans threaten the Constitution |
| Ramesh Ponnuru; Yuval Levin
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| 发表日期 | 2019-03-26
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | America’s constitutional order is under siege in the Trump era, according to many observers. As long as the Republicans retain their current win-at-all-costs orientation and remain politically competitive, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes, “we will be one election away from losing democracy in America.” Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright felt moved by President Trump’s ascendance to write a book titled “Fascism: A Warning.” Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt did her one better with the title “How Democracies Die.”
These worries about our country’s constitutional future have mostly had to do with how the president has spoken about our system of government, though in just the past few weeks, Trump’s actions have also given constitutionalists something to worry about.
Having failed to get Congress to fund the construction of more sections of a wall at the southern border, the president moved to declare an emergency and repurpose toward wall funding some money that Congress had allocated elsewhere. This declaration has led to a revival of charges that Trump harbors authoritarian tendencies, that he’s a would-be tyrant, or that he otherwise threatens the Constitution.
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| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Constitution
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| 标签 | Congress
; Political parties
; US Constitution
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/democrats-and-republicans-threaten-the-constitution/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265626
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